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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, […]

Minimal Quantity Lubrication: Drop on Demand Printing Technique

20.04.2020 577 Views

Recent research (https://doi.org/10.1007/s40544-017-0183-5) has shown that about 23% of the world’s total energy consumption comes from the tribological contacts (moving parts subject to friction and wear, such as bearings, gears, etc.). This energy is lost, [...]
Metallic Glass Gears for NASA Robots

07.08.2017 18,189 Views

Throw a baseball, and you might say it’s all in the wrist. For robots, it’s all in the gears. Gears are essential for precision robotics. They allow limbs to turn smoothly and stop on command; [...]
What Makes Even the Sharpest Razors to Become Dull When Shaving

07.12.2020 718 Views

We rely on sharp blades in our daily lives for domestic purposes, medical use, the food and catering sector, agricultural and industrial applications and everything in between. There are no corners of our society that [...]
Tribology to analyze wine mouthfeel

13.12.2018 484 Views

Researchers at the University of California, Davis, are investigating whether an analytical technique to measure friction between two surfaces can provide better understanding of wine sensory perception related to astringency and mouthfeel. Mouthfeel is an [...]
Biodegradable Triboelectric Nanogenerators to Power Implantable Sensors

15.06.2020 1,038 Views

Energy harvesting (also sometimes called scavenging) is a process of energy derivation from the ambient sources, e.g., sunlight, wind, heat, mechanical vibrations, etc. The main idea is that devices can collect the energy present in [...]