Simulating Cancer Cell Growth Including the Influence of Friction
Cancer is considered one of the deadliest diseases of our time. Countless researches are being conducted around the globe to find a cure for this disease. Apart from Doctors and Pharmacists, Engineers do have a part in tackling this disease...
Mixed-EHL Simulator For Rolling-Sliding Line-Contacts
The simulation app for mixed-EHL rolling-sliding line-contacts has been developed based on the capabilities of the Cam-Roller-Interface Tribotester (CRT-01) shown in Figure 1. The CRT-01 as well as the simulation app, allow the user to evaluate the resulting slide-to-roll ratio...
Analyzing the evolution of adhesive wear
Adhesive Wear Analyzed The effects of surface wear reaches across many industries including production, manufacturing, engineering, transportation, roads, and machinery, to name only a few. Given its wide reaching tentacles, it can be surprising to realize that surface wear is...
Adhesive Wear Particles Generation: by Fracture or Atom-by-Atom?
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 generation of wear debris. The...
Contact Area vs. Load: Simple Scaling Laws
"God made the bulk; surfaces were invented by the devil", a Nobel prize winning physicist Wolfgang Ernst Pauli said. In tribology, as in many other sciences, surface features (asperities, roughness) play an important role. In many cases, the surface roughness dramatically...
Molecular Dynamic Simulations of Zinc Phosphate – Iron Oxide Reaction
In order to improve wear resistance of the surfaces operating in harsh conditions, along with base oils additives are frequently used. ZDDP is one of the best additives in terms of antiwear performance, however, environmentally unfriendly. The search for a...
