Special Issues

Lubricants runs special issues to create collections of papers on specific topics. The aim is to build a community of authors and readers to discuss the latest research and develop new ideas and research directions. Special Issues are led by Guest Editors who are experts in the subject and oversee the editorial process for papers. Papers published in a Special Issue will be collected together on a dedicated page of the journal website. For any inquiries related to a Special Issue, please contact the Editorial Office.

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Advances in Contact Mechanics
edited by , and Xiaoyu Ding
submission deadline 15 Dec 2023 | 10 articles | Viewed by 10683 | Submission Open
Keywords: rough contact mechanics; experimental methods in contact mechanics; modelling and numerical methods; real contact area; adhesion; visco-elastic-plastic contact; soft contact; heterogeneous materials; coatings; structured surface; complex geometry; friction and wear
Frictional and Wear Behaviors of Sliding Interfaces across Scales
edited by , and Peng Zhang
submission deadline 15 Dec 2023 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3699 | Submission Open
Keywords: friction; wear; tribology; (super)lubricity; anti-wear; lubricants; additives; modeling; simulation
Tribological Properties and Failure Prediction in Mechanical Elements submission deadline 20 Dec 2023 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5658 | Submission Open
Keywords: tribology; mechanical elements; failure prediction
Acoustic Emission Techniques in Wear Monitoring II
edited by
submission deadline 20 Dec 2023 | 1 articles | Viewed by 4786 | Submission Open
Keywords: acoustic emission; tribology; adhesive wear; abrasive wear; fatigue wear; tool wear; sliding friction; rolling friction; bearings; coatings; lubricants; condition monitoring; machine learning
Fundamentals in Building Tribological Digital Twins of Machine Elements
edited by and
submission deadline 22 Dec 2023 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4141 | Submission Open
Keywords: machine elements; bearings; seals; gears; hydrodynamic lubrication; EHL; mixed lubrication; roughness; digital twin; real-time measurement; data assimilation; life prediction
Advances in Biolubrication and Biomaterials
edited by
submission deadline 22 Dec 2023 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2619 | Submission Open
Keywords: biolubrication; biolubricants; bioinspired lubricants; cartilage lubrication; artificial joints; osteoarthritis
Advances in Bearing Lubrication and Thermodynamics 2023
edited by , , Bei Yan and Fei Chen
submission deadline 31 Dec 2023 | 14 articles | Viewed by 12794 | Submission Open
Keywords: bearing lubrication; bearing thermal analysis; dynamic modelling; lubricant flow simulation
Advances in Surface Engineering and Tribology submission deadline 31 Dec 2023 | 10 articles | Viewed by 9500 | Submission Open
Keywords: solid lubricants; smart tribological coating; surface treatment; wear phenomena; coatings; surface treatment; corrosion; nanotribology
Tribology Problems in Rotating Machinery
edited by Katia Lucchesi Cavalca, Tiago Henrique Machado and Gregory Bregion Daniel
submission deadline 31 Dec 2023 | 7 articles | Viewed by 8303 | Submission Open
Keywords: hydrodynamic bearings; rolling bearings; foil bearing; bearing modelling; bearing power losses; friction reduction; bearing failure analysis; fault diagnosis; condition monitoring; rotating machinery
Friction and Wear of Cutting Tools and Cutting Tool Materials
edited by Guoliang Liu, Chuanzhen Huang, Xiangyu Wang, Bin Zhao and Min Ji
submission deadline 31 Dec 2023 | 12 articles | Viewed by 7484 | Submission Open
Keywords: wear; friction; lubricant; coating; micro-texture
Tribology of Polymer-Based Composites
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2023 | 10 articles | Viewed by 6813 | Submission Open
Friction and Wear of Rolling-Element Bearings
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2023 | 8 articles | Viewed by 5380 | Submission Open
Keywords: EHL; friction heat; grease lubrication; contact mechanics; impact wear; abrasive wear; fatigue; superfinish; surfache texture; surface coating; tribo-chemistry and tribo-corrosion; optical EHL experiments; vibration and acoustic problems
Wear Behavior of Aluminum Matrix Composite submission deadline 31 Dec 2023 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3908 | Submission Open
Keywords: wear behavior; microstructure; aluminum matrix composite materials; wear surface analysis; worn surface and wear debris
Friction and Wear of Alloys
edited by , , Ping Zhang and Kai An
submission deadline 31 Dec 2023 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2960 | Submission Open
Keywords: friction and wear properties; wear mechanism; alloys; surface treatment technologies; lubrication conditions
Wheel and Rail Tribology submission deadline 31 Dec 2023 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2651 | Submission Open
Keywords: contact mechanics; relation between rail and wheel; wheel– rail tribology; wear; rolling contact fatigue; friction management; lubrication
Tribology of Layered and 2D Materials on the Nano- and Micro-Scale
edited by , , Zhangpeng Li and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2023 | Viewed by 361 | Submission Open
Keywords: 2D materials; layered materials; friction; wear; adhesion; superlubricity; nanotribology
Emission and Transport of Wear Particles
edited by , Yezhe Lyu, and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2023 | Viewed by 304 | Submission Open
Keywords: wear mechanism; wear debris; airborne wear particles; wear particle transport; wear particle characterisation
Advances in Colloidal Lubricants and Interfacial Tribology
edited by Lu Xu, and Baogang Wang
submission deadline 31 Dec 2023 | Viewed by 192 | Submission Open
Keywords: colloidal lubricants; interfacial tribology; oil- and water-based lubricants; gels and greases; tribofilm; tribochemistry; lubrication mechanisms; lubrication control
2D Materials in Tribology
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2023 | Viewed by 145 | Submission Open
Keywords: tribology; friction; wear; 2D materials; adsorption; adhesion; superlubricity; nanotribology
Recent Advances in Machine Learning in Tribology
edited by and
submission deadline 1 Jan 2024 | 11 articles | Viewed by 11129 | Submission Open
Keywords: machine learning; artificial intelligence; knowledge discovery in databases; data mining; metamodels; artificial neural networks; classification; regression; friction; lubrication; wear; rheology; machine elements; conditions monitoring; composite materials; surface modifications; lubricants and additives
Grease II submission deadline 1 Jan 2024 | 7 articles | Viewed by 6526 | Submission Open
Lubricant Additives and Ash: Do We Know Enough? submission deadline 15 Jan 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 860 | Submission Open
Keywords: wear; lubricant; ash; anti-wear additive; detergents; over-based additives; ionic liquid lubricants; low-ash; ashless; catalyst poisoning
Tribological Study in Rolling Bearing
edited by He Liang
submission deadline 15 Jan 2024 | Viewed by 90 | Submission Open
Keywords: rolling bearings; EHL; film forming; lubricants; fluid mechanics; extreme working conditions and special environments
Tribology and Tribochemistry of Ceramics
edited by
submission deadline 31 Jan 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2172 | Submission Open
Keywords: ceramics; tribology; tribochemistry; friction; wear; lubricants; self-lubrication
Nanoscale Mechanics and Tribology of 2D Materials and Thin Films
edited by
submission deadline 31 Jan 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1243 | Submission Open
Keywords: 2D materials; nanotribology; nanomechanics; solid lubricants
Fretting Wear and Fretting Fatigue
edited by Hilmar Kjartansson Danielsen and
submission deadline 31 Jan 2024 | Viewed by 203 | Submission Open
Keywords: fretting wear; fretting fatigue; fretting corrosion; false brinelling; wear models; wear mechanism; adhesive wear; numerical simulations and fracture
Advances in Mixed Lubrication
edited by and Qin Dong
submission deadline 31 Jan 2024 | Viewed by 125 | Submission Open
Keywords: mixed lubrication; friction; wear; fluid mechanics; contact mechanics; multiphysics modeling; surface texturing; surface roughness; low-friction design; tribological properties
Advances in Ceramic-Based Lubricants
edited by Junjie Song and Yuan Fang
submission deadline 31 Jan 2024 | Viewed by 107 | Submission Open
Keywords: ceramic coating; ceramic matrix composites; liquid lubrication; solid lubrication; lubrication method; tribological properties; lubrication mechanism; friction wear mechanisms
Friction Stir Processing of Structural Metallic Materials
edited by and
submission deadline 1 Feb 2024 | 8 articles | Viewed by 8456 | Submission Open
Keywords: friction stir processing; structural metallic materials; mechanical properties; microstructure evolution; phase composition; tribocorrosion; corrosion; tribometry; modelling/simulation of friction stir processing; lubricants; wear mechanisms; biological properties; medical prescribing
New Challenges in Tribology of Space Mechanisms
edited by
submission deadline 1 Feb 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1986 | Submission Open
Advances in Boundary Lubrication submission deadline 15 Feb 2024 | 7 articles | Viewed by 6607 | Submission Open
Keywords: boundary friction; anti-wear; thin film; additives; nanoparticles; advanced materials; green lubricant; adsorption; modelling; nanotribology
Rolling Contact Fatigue and White Etching Cracks of Bearings, 2nd Edition submission deadline 15 Feb 2024 | Viewed by 117 | Submission Open
Keywords: rolling bearings; rolling contact fatigue (RCF) and tribology; new findings in classical (subsurface) RCF; mixed friction and surface RCF; RCF modified by additional loadings; material response; white etching cracks (WECs) in component/bearing tests and real applications; failure analysis of field returns and rig test bearings; preparation methods; WEC root cause hypotheses and life models; influence of lubricants/additives on RCF and WEC; tailored lubricants; protective coatings; and surface reinforcement; preventive design rules; condition monitoring and predictive maintenance; artificial intelligence systems
Recent Advances in High Temperature Tribology submission deadline 20 Feb 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4782 | Submission Open
Keywords: tribology; high temperature lubricant; wear; solid lubricant; simulation and modeling; metal forming; high temperature alloys and ceramics
Condition Monitoring and Simulation Analysis of Bearings
edited by Zhiwei Wang, and
submission deadline 25 Feb 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3766 | Submission Open
Keywords: bearing; signal processing; fault diagnosis; monitoring technology; modeling and simulation; tribological analysis; dynamics analysis; fault features
Advances in Molecular Rheology and Tribology
edited by
submission deadline 26 Feb 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 910 | Submission Open
Keywords: rheology; tribology; lubricant viscosity; normal stress difference; molecular simulations; mineral lubricants; ionic lubricants; water-based lubricants; green lubricants; lubricant additives; lubricant surface tension; hydration lubrication; biolubricants; surface engineering; boundary lubrication; elastohydrodynamic lubrication; hydrodynamic lubrication
Frictional Behavior and Wear Performance of Cast Irons
edited by
submission deadline 29 Feb 2024 | 12 articles | Viewed by 10166 | Submission Open
Keywords: cast iron; wear; friction; tribology; heat treatment; coatings; surface treatment; lubrication; microstructure
Tribology of Metal Matrix Composites submission deadline 29 Feb 2024 | Viewed by 150 | Submission Open
Keywords: metal matrix composite; tribology; hybrid composite; nanocomposite; wear; friction; lubrication; modelling; design of experiments; optimization
Tackling Emissions from the Internal Combustion Engine: Advances in Piston/Bore Tribology submission deadline 29 Feb 2024 | Viewed by 113 | Submission Open
Keywords: internal combustion engine; piston/bore tribology; emissions; piston ring pack; cylinder bore honing; thermal spray coatings; low friction coatings; APS; PTWA; TWAS
Industrial Tribo-Systems: Current Issues and Future Development Trends
edited by , , and Rosa Simencio Otero
submission deadline 1 Mar 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1774 | Submission Open
Aerospace Tribology
edited by Jimin Xu and Yulei Yang
submission deadline 1 Mar 2024 | Viewed by 175 | Submission Open
Keywords: aerospace; bearings; seals; blade tenon joints; high temperature; cryogenic; extreme situations; coatings; surface texturing; tribometers
Selected Papers from the 8th Conference on Lubrication, Maintenance and Tribotechnology (LUBMAT)
edited by Ian Sherrington and
submission deadline 1 Mar 2024 | Viewed by 27 | Submission Open
Keywords: tribology; lubrication; wear; contact mechanics; maintenance
Functional Lubricating Materials
edited by
submission deadline 13 Mar 2024 | 8 articles | Viewed by 6679 | Submission Open
Keywords: lubricating base oil; lubricant additive; liquid lubricating material; solid lubricating material
Tribological Characteristics of Bearing System, 2nd Edition
edited by
submission deadline 29 Mar 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 712 | Submission Open
Keywords: bearing; tribology; wear; fatigue characteristics; dynamic characteristics; fault diagnosis
Friction, Wear and Lubrication of Tool Steels in Metal Forming and Machining submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6862 | Submission Open
Keywords: tool steels; metal forming; machining; metal-working lubricants; wear of tool steels
Wear and Corrosion Behaviour of Metals and Alloys
edited by
submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2878 | Submission Open
Keywords: titanium alloys; aluminium alloys; magnesium alloys; stainless steels; high-entropy alloys
Tribology and Machine Learning: New Perspectives and Challenges submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2291 | Submission Open
Keywords: tribology; machine learning; artificial neural networks; analysis; prediction; optimization
Applied Tribology: Rotordynamics
edited by Junning Li, and Rufei Yu
submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | Viewed by 51 | Submission Open
Keywords: tribology; rotordynamics; multibody system dynamics; bearing; rotor-bearing system
Tribology of 2D Nanomaterials
edited by and
submission deadline 30 Apr 2024 | 8 articles | Viewed by 9528 | Submission Open
Keywords: friction and wear; nanoadditive; lubrication mechanism; synergetic effect; surface modification; structural regulation; material characterization
Wear Prediction in Aeroengine Rotor System
edited by
submission deadline 30 Apr 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5923 | Submission Open
Keywords: wear mechanisms; wear law; wear prediction; aero-engine; rotor
Additives for Lubricating Oil and Grease: Mechanism, Properties and Applications
edited by
submission deadline 30 Apr 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 4314 | Submission Open
Keywords: lubricant; grease; additive; tribology; antiwear; antioxidation; anticorrosion; dispersion
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