Advanced engineering design : lifetime performance and reliability

1. Reliabiblity engineering -- 2. Failure modes of machine elements -- 3. Fatigue failure predicition and prevention -- 4. Rolling contact phenomena -- 5. Friction phenomena in mechanical systems -- 6. Wear mechanisms -- 7. Material selection: a systematic approach -- 8. Lubricant selection and lubrication management -- 9. Design of hydrodynamic bearings and sliders -- 10. Performance and selection of dynamic sealing systems -- 11. Design of hydrostatic bearings -- 12. Design of aerostatic bearings -- 13. Design of flexure mechanisms -- 14. Bearings in high tech systems