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 Self-Lubricating Composites,2nd Edition English | 2022 | ISBN: 3662642425 | 305 Pages | PDF | 15 MB In most tribological applications, liquid or grease based lubricants are used to facilitate the relative motion of solid bodies to minimize friction and wear between interacting surfaces. The challenges for liquid lubricants arise in extreme environmental conditions, such as very high or low temperatures, vacuum, radiation, and extreme contact pressure. At these conditions, solid lubricants may be the alternative choice which can help to decrease friction and wear without incorporating liquid lubricants. Challenges with solid lubricants are to maintain a continuous supply of solid lubricants on the contact surfaces to act as lubricous layer between two sliding surfaces. Such a continuous supply is more easily maintained in the case of liquid lubricants when compared to solid lubricants. The most innovative development to ensure a continuous supply of solid lubricant to the contact surface during sliding is to introduce solid lubricant as reinforcement into the matrix of one of the sliding components. Composite materials are engineered or naturally occurring materials which contain two or more distinct constituents with significantly different chemical, physical and mechanical properties. Composites consist of reinforcement and matrix (metal, polymer and ceramics). Among various reinforcements, recent emerging material, solid lubricant, is found to have many favorable attributes such as good lubrication property. Self‐lubrication is the ability of a material to provide lubrication to the contact surface to decrease friction and wear rate in the absence of an external lubricant by transferring embedded solid lubricants in the composite to the interface. Self-lubricating composites (SLCs) are an important category of engineering materials that are increasingly replacing a number of conventional materials in the automotive, aerospace, and marine industries due to superior tribological properties. In SLCs, solid lubricant materials, including carbonous materials, molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), and hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) are embedded into the matrices as reinforcements to manufacture a novel material with attractive self-lubricating properties. Several studies have been investigated the tribological properties of self-lubricating materials. This book fills that gap to have a reference book about self-lubricating materials and their properties to help scientists, engineers, and industries. This book discusses mechanisms of self-lubricating materials, self-lubricating properties and the applications for industries. The chapters will be written by authoritative expertise in the field. Additionally, this book will demonstrate fundamental study and most advanced innovations in self-lubricating materials as regards to friction and wear. The chapters also include tribological properties of composites and coatings and some practical applications of self-lubricating materials.  Carter Buschardt, "Sasquatch: Down The Rabbit Hole of Strangeness" English | ISBN: 1954528116 | 2021 | 212 pages | AZW3 | 7 MB Sasquatch exists and they're more than we could have ever imagined.  SADL 2 : Software Architecture as a Code by Alex Manfield English | 2022 | ASIN: B09PLKMNV5 | 139 Pages | ePUB/AZW | 3.5 MB  Jonathan Fulton, "Routledge Handbook on China - Middle East Relations" English | ISBN: 0367472708 | 2021 | 424 pages | PDF | 44 MB This handbook brings together a mix of established and emerging international scholars to provide valuable analytical insights as to how China's growing Middle East presence affects intra-regional development, trade, security, and diplomacy.  Gareth C Sampson, "Rome's Great Eastern War: Lucullus, Pompey and the Conquest of the East, 74-62 BC" English | ISBN: 1526762684 | 2021 | 320 pages | PDF | 24 MB Despite Rome's conquest of the Mediterranean, by the turn of the first century BC, Rome's influence barely stretched into the East. In the century since Rome's defeat of the Seleucid Empire in the 180s BC, the East was dominated by the rise of new empires: Parthia, Armenia and Pontus, each vying to recreate the glories of the Persian Empire. By the 80s BC, the Pontic Empire of Mithridates had grown so bold that it invaded and annexed the whole of Rome's eastern empire and occupied Greece itself. As Rome emerged from the devastating effects of the First Civil War, a new breed of general emerged, eager to re-assert Roman military dominance and carve out a fresh empire in the east, treading in the footsteps of Alexander. This work analyses the military campaigns and battles between a revitalized Rome and the various powers of the eastern Mediterranean hinterland, which ultimately heralded a new phase in Roman imperial expansion and reshaped the ancient East.  Rethinking IT Outsourcing : The New IT Offshoring by Frank Howard English | 2018 | ISBN: 0999873202 | 124 Pages | ePUB | 0.58 MB  Guy Beiner, "Remembering the Year of the French: Irish Folk History and Social Memory " English | ISBN: 0299218244 | 2009 | 466 pages | PDF | 7 MB Remembering the Year of the French is a model of historical achievement, moving deftly between the study of historical events-the failed French invasion of the West of Ireland in 1798-and folkloric representationsof those events. Delving into the folk history found in Ireland's rich oral traditions, Guy Beiner reveals alternate visions of the Irish past and brings into focus the vernacular histories, folk commemorative practices, and negotiations of memory that have gone largely unnoticed by historians.  Recent Trends in Image Processing and Pattern Recognition: First International Conference, RTIP2R 2016, Bidar, India, December 16-17, 2016, Revised Selected Papers By Santosh K.C. Hangarge Mallikarjun Bevilacqua Vitoantonio Negi Atul English | PDF | 2017 | 457 Pages | ISBN : 9811048584 | 102.3 MB This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Recent Trends in Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, RTIP2R 2016, held in Bidar, Karnataka, India, in December 2017.  Michel Feher, "Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age " English | ISBN: 1942130120 | 2018 | 192 pages | PDF | 1378 KB The hegemony of finance compels a new orientation for everyone and everything: companies care more about the moods of their shareholders than about longstanding commercial success; governments subordinate citizen welfare to appeasing creditors; and individuals are concerned less with immediate income from labor than appreciation of their capital goods, skills, connections, and reputations.  Racial Trauma in the School System: Naming the Pain Routledge | English | 2022 | ISBN-10: 0367139979 | 144 pages | PDF | 13.88 MB by Connesia Handford (Author), Ariel D. Marrero (Author) |
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