Wiki Tag: table

Friction Coefficient Tables in Air and Vacuum

09.02.2017 tribonet

Friction coefficient table of solid lubricants, metals, plastics and anti-friction materials Friction coefficient table for various material pairs in atmosphere and vacuum (see the definition of friction coefficient) is shown below. The data was collected […]

Programmable Friction: Electrical Regulation of Ionic Liquid Lubrication

23.11.2020

Friction is a force rising between two surfaces when they move in opposite directions or when one moves over a stationary surface. The scale of the movement does not matter: from the movement of continental [...]
Tribometer managing autumn leaf problem on railways worldwide

25.02.2019

Since the 1800s, railway organizations have been struggling with low adhesion on the rail, especially during the Autumn season also known as the “slippery track season”. In Autumn, leaves fall on the rails and when [...]
Simulating Physics

06.12.2017

Nature is quantum mechanical, and UCSB/Google researchers are ready to study it with a nine-qubit array and the problem of many-body localization When does a metal stop being metallic? When do atoms start breaking the [...]
Superlubricity with Green Lubricant

12.09.2016

Superlubricity is a state of vanishing sliding friction. It has been reported in glycerol/water mixture lubricated contacts, graphene-gold interface, interface in presence of graphene and in other conditions. Increasing number of reports on superlubricity in [...]
Nordtrib 2016: conference summary and outlook on the field of tribology 50 years after the Jost report

19.06.2016

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 [...]