Elements of Friction

Elements Of Friction is an All-Star-Band that includes Robin McAuley (MSG, Grand Prix, Far Corporation), Ricky Phillips (Bad English, Coverdale / Page, The Babys), Tommy Aldrich (Ozzy Osbourne, Whitesnake, Ted Nugent) and Marcus Nand (MSG, Freak Of Nature) while Mark Spiro, Neal Schon (Journey), Dann Huff (Giant), Jonathan Cain (Journey), Tim Pierce, John Waite (Bad English), James Christian (House Of Lords), Gregg Giuffria (House Of Lords) and others are the song-writing team. Is there a possibility for this project to fail?

The aim of this book is to describe an efficient procedure to model dynamical contact problems with friction. This procedure is applied to different practical problems and verified by experiments.

presents the fundamentals of tribology, with chapters on its applications in engines, metal forming, seals, blasting, sintering, laser texture, biomaterials, and grinding.

In the second edition, a number of misprints that appeared in the first edition have been corrected. In addition to this, we have made improvements based on the experience gathered in the use of the first English edition of the book in the introductory course in physics at the University of Copenhagen. A chapter introducing nonlinear dynamics has been added. The purpose of this chapter is to provide supplementary reading for the students who are interested in this area of active research, where Newtonian mechanics plays an essential role. The students who wish to dig deeper, should consult texts dedicated to the study of nonlinear dynamical systems and chaos.

Avant garde. Eccentric. A maniac. Wild and adventurous. Off the wall. Extraordinary. No marketing hyperbole - this is how the players of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment describe Carl Philip Emmanuel Bach and his music. One of the many children of JS Bach, CPE Bach always lived in his father’s shadow, and now is an almost unknown figure at least beyond the classical cogniscenti. How can such an unknown be considered a gamechanger? A listen to his music reveals just why – it constantly shifts, wrongfooting the listener when they least expect it with wild changes of direction and colour – it is bright, effervescent, and is a fascinating link between the music of his father (and the Baroque era) and Joseph Haydn (and the Classical era).