Tribology

Reformulating Lubricating Oils to Improve Engine Performance

14.07.2019 426 Views

Reformulating lubricating oils for the internal combustion engine could result in an improvement in the life of the oil and engine itself, according to a recent article by Dr. Pranesh Aswath. Dr. Aswath and colleagues […]

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Friction in Only One Direction

07.07.2019 690 Views

Nature has amazed us since the beginning of time. It provides the foundation for all of our best ideas. The animal world provides the inspiration behind one of the new inventions in the world of […]

Fracture Physics and Crack Propagation

24.06.2019 277 Views

Fracture physics, a field of study in materials science, works on understanding how and why things break by quantifying and analyzing fracture surface topography. Scientists can reconstruct the history of a crack and determine the […]