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Targeting Food Texture and Mouthfeel: Food Tribology
25.07.2022 HARSHVARDHAN SINGH

Tribology is the science of interacting surfaces in relative motion and of related subjects and practices. Earlier application of tribology was only limited to automotive industry but continuous research into field has opened new areas […]

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Tribology Deserves Strategic Attention
04.07.2022 David D Scott

The very nature of tribology makes it lean towards operational thinking in contrast to strategic thinking – it is one major reason tribology is absent in executive suites around the world. Operational thinking applies to […]

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Metal Forming and Tribology
13.06.2022 HARSHVARDHAN SINGH

Introduction Metal forming is a manufacturing process in which forces are applied on raw material such that stresses induced in the material are greater than yield stress and less than ultimate stress. The material experiences […]

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Application of tribology in rock art
04.04.2022 HARSHVARDHAN SINGH

The quest to find some new interesting topic to write about tribology, ended few days back when I came across an image with a tag “ROCK TRIBOLOGY”. A few clicks here and there on Google […]

Computational Tribology
Selecting materials using machine learning
14.03.2022 Nikhil Kunapareddy

Corrosion as a phenomenon seems pretty common to us, yet it consume 6.2% GDP of the USA yearly. It is estimated that more than a whooping $270 billion dollars are spent in various ways to […]

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Abrasive waterjet tribology
16.02.2022 HARSHVARDHAN SINGH

What is waterjet machining? Waterjet machining can be referred to as a material removal process which uses a high velocity stream of water or a mixture of water and abrasives. Waterjet machining can be categorized […]

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Petrus van Musschenbroek, the first Dutch tribologist
07.02.2022 Harry van Leeuwen

Petrus van Musschenbroek, born in Leiden (Netherlands), was a famous scientist and inventor, natural philosopher, experimental physicist, engineer, instrument builder, experimenter, in the continental Newtonian tradition of Boerhaave and ‘s Gravesande. And: a tribologist. He […]

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EU Open Innovation Test Bed for Tribology
06.12.2021 Xavier Borras

Ever-growing customer demands lead to tougher material requirements. New high-performing materials and surface treatments become available every week with properties which were thought impossible. However, replacing the material of a machine component comes at a […]

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Slurry Tribology – Tribology of drilling fluids and fracturing fluids
10.11.2021 HARSHVARDHAN SINGH

In technical terminology, a slurry is a mixture of solid particles in a liquid that can be readily pumped. The following article describes the use of tribology in understanding slurry-related wear prevalent in drilling operations. […]

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Fast, Faster, Fastest – Ski and Snow Tribology
08.11.2021 Andreas Almqvist

At Luleå University of Technology (LTU) they are joining forces to establish a Swedish Research Center for Performance & Technology in Sports. Within the multidisciplinary formation we find the newly started Ski and Snow Laboratory […]

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