 Friction is that force which acts between two bodies at their surface of contact so as to resist their sliding on each other, and which depends on the force with which the bodies are pressed together.  A Manual of Civil Engineering - Page 171by William John Macquorn Rankine - 1883 - 808 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William John Macquorn Rankine - Mechanical engineering - 1866 - 624 pages
...204, and 669 to 685).— The most frequent cause of loss of work in machines is friction — being that force which acts between two bodies at their...force with which the bodies are pressed together. The following law respecting the friction of solid bodies has been ascertained by experiment : —... | |
 | William John Macquorn Rankine - Mechanics, Applied - 1869 - 690 pages
...two bodies at their "V~ surface of contact, and in the direction of a tangent to that surface, <-_ M> as to resist their sliding on each other, and which...force with which the bodies are pressed together. v There is also a kind of resistance to the sliding of two bodies upon each other, which is independent... | |
 | William John Macquorn Rankine - Mechanical engineering - 1872 - 714 pages
...between two bodies at their surface of contact, and in the direction of a tangent to that surface, so as to resist their sliding on each other, and which...force with which the bodies are pressed together. There is also a kind of resistance to the sliding of two bodies upon each other, which is independent... | |
 | William John Macquorn Rankine, Edward Fisher Bamber - Mechanical engineering - 1873 - 332 pages
...dividing each projected resultant by the projected space over which it is distributed. 261. Friction is that force which acts between two bodies at their...pressed together. It is a kind of shearing stress. The following law respecting the friction of solid bodies has been ascertained by experiment : —... | |
 | William John Macquorn Rankine, Edward Fisher Bamber - Mechanical engineering - 1873 - 368 pages
...dividing each projected resultant by the projected space over which it is distributed. 261. Friction is that force which acts between two bodies at their surface of contact so as to resist their sliding ou each other, and which depends on the force with which the bodies are pressed together. It is a kind... | |
 | William John Macquorn Rankine - Machinery - 1873 - 568 pages
...204, and 669 to 685).— The most frequent cause of loss of work in machines is friction — being that force which acts between two bodies at their surface of contact so as to resist their t liding on each other, and which depends on the force with which the bodies are pressed together.... | |
 | William John Macquorn Rankine - Mechanical engineering - 1877 - 714 pages
...between two bodies at their surface of contact, and in the direction of a tangent to that surface, so as to resist their sliding on each other, and which depends 011 the force with which the bodies are pressed together. 190. i.nw of Solid Friction.—The following... | |
 | William John Macquorn Rankine - Machinery - 1880 - 688 pages
...204, and 669 to 685).— The most frequent cause of loss of work in machines is friction — being that force which acts between two bodies at their...force with which the bodies are pressed together. The following law respecting the friction of solid bodies has been ascertained by experiment : —... | |
 | Naval art and science - 1880 - 1054 pages
...between two bodies at their surface of contact, and in the direction of a tangent to that surface, so as to resist their sliding on each other, and which...force with which the bodies are pressed together. There is also a kind of resistance to the sliding of two bodies upon each other, which is independent... | |
 | W. J. M. Rankine - 1883 - 666 pages
...of work in machines is friction — being that force which acts between two bodies at their smface of contact so as to resist their sliding on each other,...force with which the bodies are pressed together. The following law respecting the friction of solid bodies has been ascertained by experiment : —... | |
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