Table of Contents:
  • Lubrication with liquid crystals / Jacques Cognard
  • Numerical analysis of layered liquid crystals in a thin wedge / Younchul Rhim and John A. Tichy
  • Spectral changes of liquid crystals undergoing shear in a simulated bearing / James L. Lauer, Young J. Ahn, and Traugott E. Fischer
  • Temperature effects on the tribological properties of thermotropic liquid crystals / Girma Biresaw and Dianne A. Zadnik
  • Effect of liquid-crystalline structures on lubrication of aluminum surfaces / K. Kumar and D.O. Shah
  • Lyotropic liquid crystals in lubrication / Stig E. Friberg, Anthony J. Ward, Selda Gunsel, and Francis E. Lockwood
  • Film thickness and frictional behavior of some liquid crystals in concentrated point contacts / H.S. Lee, S.H. Winoto, W.O. Winer, Miin Chiu, and Stig E. Friberg.