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Control of Machines with Friction

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  • © 1991

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  1. Brian Armstrong-Hélouvry

    1. University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA

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Part of the book series: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science (SECS, volume 128)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages N1-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Brian Armstrong-Hélouvry
    Pages 1-5

  3. Friction in Machines

    • Brian Armstrong-Hélouvry
    Pages 7-42

  4. Experiment Design

    • Brian Armstrong-Hélouvry
    Pages 43-46

  5. Repeatability

    • Brian Armstrong-Hélouvry
    Pages 47-53

  6. Break-Away Experiments

    • Brian Armstrong-Hélouvry
    Pages 55-62

  7. Friction as a Function of Velocity (Negative Viscous Friction Revealed)

    • Brian Armstrong-Hélouvry
    Pages 63-93

  8. Analysis of Stick-Slip

    • Brian Armstrong-Hélouvry
    Pages 95-124

  9. Demonstrations of Friction Compensation

    • Brian Armstrong-Hélouvry
    Pages 125-140

  10. Suggestions Toward Friction Modeling and Compensation

    • Brian Armstrong-Hélouvry
    Pages 141-145

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 147-173
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About this book

It is my ambition in writing this book to bring tribology to the study of control of machines with friction. Tribology, from the greek for study of rubbing, is the discipline that concerns itself with friction, wear and lubrication. Tribology spans a great range of disciplines, from surface physics to lubrication chemistry and engineering, and comprises investigators in diverse specialities. The English language tribology literature now grows at a rate of some 700 articles per year. But for all of this activity, in the three years that I have been concerned with the control of machines with friction, I have but once met a fellow controls engineer who was aware that the field existed, this including many who were concerned with friction. In this vein I must confess that, before undertaking these investigations, I too was unaware that an active discipline of friction existed. The experience stands out as a mark of the specialization of our time. Within tribology, experimental and theoretical understanding of friction in lubricated machines is well developed. The controls engineer's interest is in dynamics, which is not the central interest of the tribologist. The tribologist is more often concerned with wear, with respect to which there has been enormous progress - witness the many mechanisms which we buy today that are lubricated once only, and that at the factory. Though a secondary interest, frictional dynamics are note forgotten by tribology.

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  • University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA

    Brian Armstrong-Hélouvry

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