Sovremennaya transportnaya tekhnika soderzhit mnozhestvo detaley i soedineniy (stupitsy koles, katki gusenichnogo dvizhitelya, sharniry ravnykh uglovykh skorostey i dr.), kotorye ne udaetsya effektivno zashchitit' ot iznashivaniya standartnymi plastichnymi smazkami. Analiz dannykh ekspluatatsii i literaturnykh istochnikov pokazal, chto do 25 % otkazov khodovoy chasti avtotraktornoy tekhniki prikhoditsya na podshipnikovye uzly. V knige predstavleny rezul'taty razrabotki i issledovaniya metodov i sredstv bezrazbornogo vosstanovleniya rabotosposobnosti podshipnikov kacheniya dvizhiteley sel'skokhozyaystvennoy tekhniki primeneniem metalloplakiruyushchikh plastichnykh smazok; privodyatsya rezul'taty laboratornykh tribologicheskikh i fiziko-khimicheskikh issledovaniy, stendovykh i ekspluatatsionnykh ispytaniy, a takzhe vnedreniya i ekonomicheskoy otsenki raboty. Kniga prednaznachena dlya sotrudnikov remontno-tekhnicheskikh i ekspluatiruyushchikh predpriyatiy, a takzhe dlya prepodavateley, studentov i aspirantov tekhnicheskikh vuzov.