ME154 Tribology

L-T-P=Cr: 3-0-0-3
Pre-requisite: NIL.
Objective: Tribology, which deals with integrated study of friction, lubrication and wear, is a multi-disciplinary
subject immensely related to design, manufacture and operational exploitation, spreading its tentacles to
various aspects of maintenance and sustainable performance of capital equipment.
Outcome: Students are able to understand the complicated phenomena, basic laws and applications of
friction, lubrication and wear to real-life cases with the basic knowledge of surface integrity and contact,
involving design, manufacture and maintenance of machinery.
Module 1: Introduction to Tribology, Definitions, Basic Laws, Viscosity of Lubricants, Viscosity Standards and
Hydrodynamic Equations. Lectures 06
Module 2: Surface Roughness and its Standardization, Measurement Techniques: contact and non-contact
types, Instrument for measuring statistical parameters, statistical analysis of surfaces and their
characteristics. Lectures 08
Module 3: Friction and Wear: Laws of friction, single asperity adhesion theory of friction, modified theory of
adhesion, adhesion theory with contaminated films, various types of frictions defined, phenomenon of wear,
laws of wear, adhesive wear, tribo monitoring for friction and wear, wear particle analysis ferrography.
Lectures 07
Module 4: Hydrodynamic Slider Bearings, Hydrodynamic Journal Bearings, Hydrostatic Aerostatic Bearings,
Antifriction Bearings. Lectures 08
Module 5: Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication, selection of lubricants, properties, selection stages, regime of
lubrication, typical lubricant tests, commonly used lubricants and hazards, ferrography, classification and uses
of Solid Lubricants. Lectures 07
Module 6: Tribological Behaviour of Asperities Contact: Contact stress, surface roughness and Hydrodynamic
actions, Non-conforming contact, average Reynolds equation for partial lubrication, Asperity contact of rough
surfaces, contact deformation and Tribo properties of plastics. Lectures 06
Text Books:
1. Fundamentals of Tribology by S. K. Basu, S. N. Sengupta and B. B. Ahuja; PHI Learning pvt. ltd., New Delhi
2. Tribology in Indertrion- By Sushil Kumar Srivastava

3. Introduction to Tribology of Bearings- By B.C. Majumdar ; A.H.Wheeler

4. Principles of Tribology – By J. Halling, Macmillan
5. Friction and wear of Materials- By E. Robinowicz, Johan Wiley
6. Principles of Lubrication-By A. Cameron, Longmans
7. Mechanics and Chemistry in Lubrication- By Dorinson and Ludema , Elsevier
Reference Books:
1. Introduction to Tribology of bearings by - B. C. Majumdar., S Chand & Co.
2. Hand Book of Tribology -- WHILEY
3. Fundamentals of Fluid film lubrication by – Bernard Hamrock, Mc Graw Hill International Edition.
4. Tribology in Industries by Sushil. K. Srivastava, S Chand & Publications.
5. Basic Lubrication theory by Alastair Cameron.