Anna Igual Munoz - Tribocorrosion (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology)

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Tribocorrosion can be considered a young research area which has experienced a boosting interest and development in the last 20 years mainly due to the increasing demand from engineering systems which are subjected to the combined action of wear and corrosion (i.e. biomedical implants, mining equipment, manufacturing, nuclear power plants, food processing devices and marine infrastructures). Tribocorrosion occurs in tribological contacts operating in corrosive environments and results in a material degradation or transformation caused by the interaction of chemical and tribological phenomena. This complex situation cannot be approached by simply considering both wear and corrosion separately. Thus specific tribocorrosion concepts and tailored experiments must be employed. This book is intended to constitute a toolbox for identifying and addressing tribocorrosion situations from an engineering point of view. It describes specific tribocorrosion concepts, models and experimental techniques as well as their application to practical situations in which mechanical and chemical phenomena act simultaneously. To do that, the book has been structured in eight chapters allowing for introducing the importance of the tribocorrosion phenomena (Chap. , aims to give some practical examples of how to use tribocorrosion concepts in engineering systems.

This book addresses researchers, engineers and professionals from industry and academia dealing with engineering systems in which wear and corrosion takes place simultaneously, thus confronted with tribocorrosion situations. It constitutes an introductory book to those who want to move the first steps in the tribocorrosion field.