Metal Wear Particles | About Tribology

Small Particles - Big Problems

27.06.2016 Dr. Aydar Akchurin 297 Views

Tiny particles are all over around us and sometimes they may create problems. This is especially of concern with metal particles formed due to wear in man-made engineering devices. Particles formed in car disk brakes […]

Sticky or Not Sticky?

29.04.2019 583 Views

Numerical analysis of adhesion of rough surfaces shows that there exist one unique parameter determining whether the surface is sticky or not. It is well known that neutral bodies attract each other by van der [...]
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: [...]
Contact mechanics challenge results

09.10.2017 1,611 Views

The Contact-Mechanics Challenge completed In late 2015 we posed the Contact-Mechanics Challenge. This has now been completed and the winner is—the field of tribology. BECAUSE TRIBOLOGY IS THE STUDY OF contacting bodies in relative motion, [...]
Mechano-chemical wear and tribofilm thickness simulation

29.03.2016 471 Views

When the conditions in the tribosystem are such that the lubricant is not capable of carrying any significant part of the applied load, most of the load is carried by the direct contact of the [...]
Environmentally friendly oleophobic coating for your clothes

05.05.2017 2,717 Views

When you spill pasta sauce on your favorite shirt but there is no trace of it after being washed, you can thank oleophobicity, a resistance to oil commonly applied to textiles. That resistance, however, comes [...]