David Tabor

11.8k citations
64 papers · 7.1k · 4 hit papers · h-index 30

Impact in

    • Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions
    • Metal and Thin Film Mechanics
    • Tribology and Wear Analysis
    • Mechanical stress and fatigue analysis
    • Gear and Bearing Dynamics Analysis

Papers in

David Tabor

61 papers receiving 6.6k citations

David Tabor's Hit Papers

The Hardness of Metals 2000 · 1.9k citations
1.9k0+19+38Years since publication50010001.5k

Peers

David Tabor
Comparison fields: 5 of 135
  • Mechanics of Materials 4.4k
  • Mechanical Engineering 2.6k
  • Surfaces, Coatings and Films 428
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 1.8k
  • Materials Chemistry 1.7k
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside David Tabor, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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The Hardness of Metals
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20001892
2
The effect of surface roughness on the adhesion of elastic solids
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1975775
3
The direct measurement of normal and retarded van der Waals forces
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1969539
4 1972439
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The friction and creep of polycrystalline ice
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1971352
6 1971270
7 1959264
8 1972243
9 1981242
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Friction: An Introduction to Tribology
1973176
11 1982144
12 1964142
13 1958140
14 1955120
15 1961119
16 1971104
17 197891
18 195687
19 201480
20 195474

About David Tabor

David Tabor is a scholar working on Mechanics of Materials, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering, having authored 64 papers that have together received 7.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions (23 papers), Tribology and Wear Analysis (11 papers), Mechanical stress and fatigue analysis (10 papers), Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (8 papers), Lubricants and Their Additives (4 papers), Metal Alloys Wear and Properties (4 papers), Tribology and Lubrication Engineering (4 papers) and Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Mechanics of Materials (4.4k citations), Mechanical Engineering (2.6k citations), Surfaces, Coatings and Films (428 citations), Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (1.8k citations) and Materials Chemistry (1.7k citations). David Tabor has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and South Sudan. Frequent co-authors include K. N. G. Fuller, R.H.S. Winterton, Jacob N. Israelachvili, Kevin Kendall, Piers R. F. Barnes, J. C. F. Walker, Frank Philip Bowden, K. Rachel Makinson, A. D. Roberts and Г. М. Бартенев. Their work appears in journals such as Tribology International, Nature, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Contemporary Physics and Nature Communications.

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