Recent Achievements and Future Developments in Surface Texture Control of Tribological Properties
A special issue of Lubricants (ISSN 2075-4442).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 446
Special Issue Editors
Interests: surface texture; tribology; lubricants and lubricant additives; deep learning and diagonosis; optimization
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Surface texture has been proven to have the ability to improve the friction, lubrication, vibration and biological performance of mechanical components by preparing a macro-/micro-structure array with specific shapes, arrangements, and sizes on the contact surfaces through appropriate processing techniques, to realize the desired surface properties, without changing the material properties and chemical composition of the matrix itself. However, effective systematic design methods, performance prediction theories, and intelligent diagnosis and optimization algorithms have not yet been developed since the 1960s.
This Special Issue aims to report the latest achievements of surface texture in the above-mentioned fields, and provide some constructive and forward-looking directions for the future development of surface texture.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
- New bio-mimetic surface texture and its tribological characteristics;
- Dynamic modeling and analysis of surface textured friction pairs or mechanical components (such as rolling bearings);
- Novel and efficient surface texture manufacturing methods;
- Friction behavior prediction and diagnosis of surface textured mechanical parts based on deep learning;
- The latest applications of surface texture technology in more fields.
Dr. Risheng Long
Dr. Yuan Wei
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- tribological properties
- surface texturing technology
- dynamics modeling and analysis
- bio-mimetic
- machine learning
- deep learning
- prediction and diagnosis
- design and optimization
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