Fayoum University

Faculty of Engineering
Fourth year (Power Mechanical Engineering)
Oils and Fuels MPE 444
Sheet (1)
1. What is meant by Tribology?
2. Define: Friction, Lubrication & Wear.
3. What is the practical objectives of Tribology?
4. Is it always desirable to minimize wear and friction?
5. Give some application of tribology?
6. State the role of material selection in wear.
7. What is the difference between two-body and three-body abrasive wear and why is
this difference important?
8. Does heat treatment of metallic alloys to gain increases in hardness offer large
improvements in wear resistance to a hard abrasive?
9. What coating properties are needed in order to resist abrasive wear?
10. What is the main difference between abrasive and erosive wear?
11. What is the effect of Impingement Angle on Erosive Wear Rate?
12. Give an example where erosive wear by solids and liquids is used in engineering to our
advantage.
13. Is cavitation wear an entirely destructive process?
14. State the mechanisms of Abrasive wear?
15. What is the cause of adhesive wear?
16. What is the cause of adhesive film transfer between two contacting bodies of
dissimilar mechanical strengths?
17. Give an example of a beneficial effect of adhesive wear.
18. In dry sliding of metallic alloys what steps can be undertaken to minimize adhesive wear?
19. Under what conditions does fatigue wear occur?
20. Explain briefly how a wear particle is formed by fatigue wear.