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Adhesive Wear Particles Generation: by Fracture or Atom-by-Atom?

01.08.2016 Dr. Aydar Akchurin 579 Views

The most famous equation to predict wear known probably to everyone working in the field of tribology is Archard’s model (1953). The model assumes that wear occurs through the fracture of plastically deformed material and […]

Employing machine learning to create wear and corrosion resistant metallic glass

23.04.2018 1,119 Views

If you combine two or three metals together, you will get an alloy that usually looks and acts like a metal, with its atoms arranged in rigid geometric patterns. But once in a while, under [...]
Reduce the Friction with Graphene Balls

21.02.2016 481 Views

Tiny, sub-micron sized particles are frequently used as additives in the lubricants to improve their frictional and wear behavior. These particles, due to their size, can enter the contact and protect the surfaces from the [...]
Ice friction and frictional heat

07.02.2016 305 Views

As it was already pointed in the recent post, the friction on ice is an important topic and its typical low value is attributed to the formation of the water film. Despite our everyday life [...]
Models Predicting When and How Roads Will Deteriorate

27.01.2020 1,780 Views

Heriberto Perez, a researcher at the UPV/EHU’s Faculty of Engineering-Bilbao, has developed behavior models able to predict the future deterioration of roads. The models focus on two different aspects, the international roughness index (IRI) and [...]
Sticky or Not Sticky?

29.04.2019 609 Views

Numerical analysis of adhesion of rough surfaces shows that there exist one unique parameter determining whether the surface is sticky or not. It is well known that neutral bodies attract each other by van der [...]