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Nanoscale Surface Texture To Reduce Bouncing Droplet Contact Time

24.08.2020 tribonet 541 Views

Nature continues to shed light on the amazing and wide range of mechanisms employed in the world of plants and animals. Nanoscale (1 x 10 -7 or 3.937 x 10-8 inches) textured surfaces help insects […]

Should the contact area really increase due to sliding, and why this is never observed?

14.08.2019 2,692 Views

Abstract A paper by Menga, Carbone & Dini (MCD) recently published in prestigeous journal, suggests that in the contact with adhesion, the effect of tangential forces, and in particular of shear stresses assumed constant at [...]
Researchers simulate wear of materials as they rub together

20.10.2017 1,449 Views

Forty years ago, MIT emeritus professor of mechanical engineering Ernest Rabinowicz calculated that 6 percent of the annual U.S. gross domestic product was lost through mechanical wear. His assertion gained enough traction that it became [...]
Future of Oil Analysis is Linked to Machine Learning

20.01.2020 1,361 Views

Traditional oil analysis, also called oil condition monitoring (OCM) analyzes samples for abnormal wear, condition of the fluid, and presence of contaminates. The presence of any of these issues indicates that action needs to be [...]
Superlubricity in graphene nanoribbon - gold interface

28.02.2016 419 Views

Superlubricity is a phenomenon of vanishing friction, which can be used to increase the efficiency of many mechanical devices and reduce the energy costs. The phenomenon is not well understood and mostly is observed in [...]
Who is The First? Leonardo da Vinci!

06.06.2016 975 Views

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, the famous Italian engineer, architect, painter, musician, mathematician can also be considered as The First Tribologist! Although the term itself was invented approximately 450 years after Leonardo da Vinci [...]