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High Hardness Boron Rich Boron Carbide is Synthesized using CVD

18.05.2020 tribonet 391 Views

Hardness is a material’s resistance to plastic deformation and this property is widely used to rank materials for various engineering applications. Hard materials can be used for cutting, drilling. Hardness frequently correlates with wear resistance […]

Tribology at Work on the Strings

12.07.2017 1,558 Views

There’s something about the moan and wail of a good gut-bucket slide guitar riff that can grab you by the innards and not let go. Any tribologist worth his salt is likely to have another [...]
Sharp knives - high friction

28.02.2018 4,468 Views

Trying to slice a tomato into thin slices with a dull knife can get a little scary. The harder the knife must be pressed downward before the skin is broken is directly related to the [...]
Creating a Robo-Dog Army: Tribological Aspects

02.09.2019 249 Views

Recently Boston Dynamics’ released a video of a robo-dog army pulling a truck down the road. The future is here. For now it looks like the good old Terminator I movie. But I guess we [...]
Reduce the Friction with Graphene Balls

21.02.2016 479 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 [...]
Metal with Memory: Shaping the Future of Aviation

13.11.2017 434 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 [...]