Tribology and Wear Properties of Self-Lubricating Materials
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Tribology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2023) | Viewed by 2523
Special Issue Editors
Interests: self-lubricating; advanced materials; coating friction; wear mechanism; composites; wear resistance; micro-, nano- structure; contact mechanicms; surface properties; interface mechanical/physical/chemical properties
Interests: self-lubricating; non-destructive testing; tribo-sensing; digital twin; clean growth; future mobility; wheel-rail contacts; bio-degradable lubricants; laser surface texturing; laser cladding; nuclear structural integrity
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Machines consist broadly of mechanical structures and tribological elements. In the last few decades, driven by the global sustainable development policy and environmental legislation, the development and implementation of self-lubricating materials for tribological machine elements have been widely studied with the aim of minimizing the use of environmental harmful lubricants and reducing the energy consumption from material friction and wear. Self-lubricating materials are a new generation of materials that utilizes the benefits of incorporated solid-lubricating compounds, e.g., polymer-based, soft metal-based, intermetallic composites, metal oxides, etc. The aim of the special issue ‘Tribology and Wear Properties of the Self-Lubricating Materials’ focuses on both experimental and simulational studies on the design and development of self-lubricating materials, evaluation of tribological properties, prototyping of tribological machine elements, validation of tribological applications, etc. In particular, the topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Design and development of self-lubricating materials;
- Development of experimental methods for understanding the friction, wear, and lubrication properties of self-lubricating materials;
- Assessment of the tribological performance of machine elements made from self-lubricating materials;
- Evaluation and validation of tribological applications in machine elements;
- Characterization of interfaces for self-lubricating materials;
- Micro-, nano mechanism analysis regarding friction and wear;
- Experimentation and simulation of self-lubricating material failures.
Dr. Juanjuan Zhu
Dr. Ping Lu
Guest Editors
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