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Boundary lubrication by an adsorption layer

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Some key directions of study of the friction and wear of solids under conditions of boundary lubrication by an adsorption layer are analyzed. The ideas and methods of the studies are considered in sequence starting from works of the founder of the boundary lubrication concept W. Hardy and proceeding to the results of the outstanding scientists of the following generations—F.P. Bowden, D. Tabor, B.V. Deryagin, A.S. Akhmatov, G.I. Fuks, R.M. Matveevskii, and others—and then to those of contemporary researchers. Tribochemical aspects of lubrication by an adsorption layer are discussed. Special attention is paid to attempts to develop physical and mathematical models of the boundary lubrication process.

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Original Russian Text © I.A. Buyanovskii, 2010, published in Trenie i Iznos, 2010, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 48–67.

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Buyanovskii, I.A. Boundary lubrication by an adsorption layer. J. Frict. Wear 31, 33–47 (2010). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068366610010046

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