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Physics of Contact and Adhesion with application to biological systems - ICTP Colloquium

30.08.2019 tribonet 202 Views

A talk by Professor Bo Persson on contact mechanics and adhesion in biological systems. Abstract: One of the weakest forces in nature is the van der Waals interaction which acts between all atoms and solids. […]

NASCAR Pile Up and Importance of Friction

29.07.2019 1,696 Views

A real life examples to help explain the importance of tribology are priceless. Car races can provide an exciting example. A pile up at the 2019 Daytona NASCAR car race created an example the effect [...]
Tribological testing of materials for automotive industry

26.06.2017 1,189 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, [...]
World’s most powerful large-size bearing test centre in operation

05.10.2017 1,124 Views

SKF has a broad portfolio of extremely powerful software for the calculation and simulation of all types of rolling bearings. Among these are highly complex systems, which can investigate bearing behaviour in a virtual environment: [...]
Adhesive Wear Particles Generation: by Fracture or Atom-by-Atom?

01.08.2016 575 Views

The most famous equation to predict wear known probably to everyone working in the field of tribology is Archard’s model (1953). The model assumes that wear occurs through the fracture of plastically deformed material and [...]
Reduced Friction: Inspired by Nature

28.01.2016 655 Views

Darvin’s theory of evolution is widely held concept which states that all the life has evolved from a common ancestor: fruits, animals, trees, flowers. During the gradual process of evolution, beneficial random genetic mutations in [...]