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Tribological testing of materials for automotive industry

26.06.2017 tribonet 1,269 Views

Quality Magazine have published an article about using benchtop mechanical testing to assess materials in the automotive industry,  saving time and money. Full scale tests are often used to test the frictional behaviour of materials, […]

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