This book focuses on the tribology of marine sliding bearings. It extensively investigates the lubrication characteristics of two special forms of marine sliding bearings including journal-thrust coupled bearings for diesel engine crankshafts and double-layer oil film floating bushings for diesel engine fuel supply mechanisms. Building upon conventional theories of lubrication in sliding bearings, the book considers the unique operational conditions and structural features of these bearing...

For study resources and the English-language Chinese Perpetual (Lunar) Calendar, please visit ichingstream.com.About “Fire Pearl Forest” (“Huo Zhu Lin”) — English EditionFor readers already grounded in Six Lines Divination, Fire Pearl Forest (Huo Zhu Lin 火珠林) is the next essential step. As the earliest surviving systematic treatise on the Na Jia method, it shaped how practitioners after the Song era understood hexagram dyna...