Industrial Lubrication and Tribology

SHERWOOD, D.T.

1970 Industrial Lubrication and Tribology

doi: 10.1108/eb052946

WHILST reinforced plastics materials have been employed for bearing surfaces on an ever increasing scale for over thirty years, it is only in the past decade or so that they have really been accepted as engineering materials in their own right and not as just substitutes for metals.

1970 Industrial Lubrication and Tribology

doi: 10.1108/eb052947

THE above was the title of the Second International Tribology Conference held at the Paisley College of Technology from the 7th to the 11th September. It was designed to examine the methods of testing lubricants and associated material and to review the problems of interpreting the results on a practical basis. One of the most difficult factors in evaluating lubricants is the assessment of their performance in working conditions without carrying out extensive and prolonged in service testing, and the conference organisers emphasised the devising of methods of tests which would help users to select suitable materials.