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Contact mechanics challenge results: a follow up discussion

05.02.2018 TriboNet

In 2015 Prof. Martin Müser of Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany initiated a contact mechanics challenge with a goal to provide tribologists with benchmarks to decide which method is the most appropriate for a particular problem. […]

Hysteresis in Friction of Graphene

02.05.2016

Friction is a result of complex interaction of physical, chemical and mechanical forces at the sliding interface. Due to mentioned complexity, truly predictive models of friction are yet to be developed. As a result of [...]
What is this device?

08.02.2021

What if the bearings in the wheels of your future car/bicycle/motorbike was doing more than the normal bearing job? What if it could not only bear the load with minimum friction, but also insure other [...]
Physicists are one step closer to understand lubrication at nanoscale

27.04.2020

[avatar user=”Aydar Akchurin” size=”original” align=”left” link=”https://www.linkedin.com/in/aydar-akchurin/”] The article was written by Dr. Aydar Akchurin[/avatar] The famous picture of transportation of an Egyptian statue to the grave of Tehuti-Hetep, El-Bersheh indicates that the concept of lubrication [...]
Attend Tribology Gordon Research Conference (GRC) 2022

13.05.2022

Dear Colleagues: After being postponed due to COVID, the Tribology Gordon Research Conference (GRC) and Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) are back! They will both be held this summer at Bates College in Lewiston ME, USA. [...]
Relativistic Tribology, Tribo Plasma

12.02.2016

Gravitational waves were proved to exist, thus validating one more prediction by Albert Einstein and his general theory of relativity! Is there any relation between the relativity and Tribology? It looks like there is! “Micromechanisms [...]

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Contact mechanics challenge results: a follow up discussion