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Tribometer — Figure 1. First tribometer sketch by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

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Researchers discover surface of 'ultra-smooth' nanomaterial steeper than Austrian Alps

17.01.2019 267 Views

People can usually tell if something is rough or smooth by running their fingers along its surface. But what about things that are too small or too big to run a finger over? The earth [...]
Nordtrib 2016: conference summary and outlook on the field of tribology 50 years after the Jost report

19.06.2016 938 Views

Nordtrib 2016 came to a close last Friday and I returned home inspired and energized for the next stint in my PhD research. This post is an overview of the conference and summarises the outlook [...]
Argonne Embraces Concept of "in operando" Formation of Carbon-based Tribofilms

23.08.2016 505 Views

Earlier this month, tribologists and physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory published news of their (self-described) “self-healing diamond-like carbon coating [that] could revolutionize lubrication” in the journal Nature. The researchers [...]
Discontinuous Shear Thickening

03.05.2021 295 Views

If you sometimes wander on youtube, you have probably already seen a video about experiments on cornstarch mixed with water. They were quite popular a few years ago. These videos show the surprising properties of [...]
Early Mechanical Behaviors and Origins of Earthquakes

23.03.2020 7,124 Views

Hadrien Rattez, a research scientist in civil and environmental engineering at Duke University and Manolis Veveakis, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Duke University, have joined forces to create a model, which [...]

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