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Friction and Wear: From Elementary Mechanisms to Macroscopic Behavior

23.09.2019 tribonet 1,254 Views

In the last 25 years, the global trend to miniaturization has raised interest in frictional processes on the micro and nano scale and facilitated appearance of nanotribology as a new branch of research. Soon it […]

Employing machine learning to create wear and corrosion resistant metallic glass

23.04.2018 1,109 Views

If you combine two or three metals together, you will get an alloy that usually looks and acts like a metal, with its atoms arranged in rigid geometric patterns. But once in a while, under [...]
How to better predict the minimum film thickness of elastohydrodynamic contacts?

11.01.2021 636 Views

Let’s say you have the choice between an almost infinite lifespan device, and a device that undergoes wear and failure within a few minutes or hours of running. In most cases, you would choose the [...]
Switchable Friction on Graphene

15.08.2016 271 Views

Graphene is a unique material in many aspects and has recently been applied in various ways. In tribology, it has been shown to lead to a superlubricity – an ultra low friction state. In laboratory [...]
Cartilage tribology: Slip sliding away

22.01.2018 881 Views

Research sheds light on friction, lubrication and wear in cartilage 11:25 a.m., Aug. 24, 2015–Osteoarthritis, which affects some 27 million people in the U.S. alone, occurs when the protective cartilage on the ends of bones [...]
Sandia Researchers Identified Nanoscale Mechanisms of Steel Corrosion

05.08.2019 480 Views

Corrosion is a naturally occurring process, which converts refined metals into a more chemically stable form. This could be an oxide, hydroxide, or sulfide. Corrosion is the gradual destruction of metals by chemical or electrochemical [...]