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Metal with Memory: Shaping the Future of Aviation

13.11.2017 426 Views

While aeronautics researchers across the globe continue to develop technologies that will make air travel more efficient, more sustainable and safer, there is a group of NASA researchers who are altering the long-held view that [...]
Three-dimensional subatomic scale AFM can measure friction

11.05.2017 1,078 Views

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is an extremely sensitive technique that allows us to image materials and/or characterize their physical properties on the atomic scale by sensing the force above material surfaces using a precisely controlled [...]
Feeling of a touch for robots through artificial intelligence and contact area patterns

06.06.2017 1,613 Views

Eight years ago, Ted Adelson’s research group at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) unveiled a new sensor technology, called GelSight, that uses physical contact with an object to provide a remarkably detailed [...]
Guidance Notes on Friction

19.03.2018 3,326 Views

In dry sliding between a given pair of materials under steady conditions, the coefficient of friction may be almost constant. This is the basis for two EMPIRICAL Laws of Sliding Friction, which are often known [...]
Analyzing the evolution of adhesive wear

06.05.2019 1,423 Views

Adhesive Wear Analyzed The effects of surface wear reaches across many industries including production, manufacturing, engineering, transportation, roads, and machinery, to name only a few. Given its wide reaching tentacles, it can be surprising to [...]