Failures of many mechanical components in service result from fatigue. The cracks which grow may either originate from some pre-existing macroscopic defect, or,

This volume includes 36 of the 40 papers presented at the symposium, and a collection of six keynote papers providing background on the subject. Topics covered

Fretting Wear and Fretting Fatigue: Fundamental Principles and Applications takes a combined mechanics and materials approach, providing readers with a fundamen

Contains 29 contributions drawn from the Third International Symposium on Fretting Fatigue held in Nagaoka, Japan in May 2001. Sections of the volume address fr