Surface Textures and Tribology in Mechanical Components
A special issue of Lubricants (ISSN 2075-4442).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 133
Special Issue Editors
Interests: surface texture; tribology; lubricants and lubricant additives; deep learning and diagonosis; seals
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Dear Colleagues,
Since the 1960s, it has been known that surface texturing can significantly alter the frictional, lubrication, vibration, and heat transfer properties of interfaces by preparing macroscopic/microscopic structural arrays of specific shapes, arrangements, and sizes at the contact interface. This has been applied to mechanical basic components such as seals, sliding bearings, and rolling bearings. However, the related design methods, performance degradation processes, prediction theories, optimization algorithms, and reliability issues have not yet been systematically studied.
This Special Issue aims to report the latest achievements of surface texturing in the field of mechanical basic components, and provide some constructive and forward-looking directions for the future development of surface texturing technology.
Potential themes include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Bio-mimetic surface textures;
- Multi-physics fields modeling and analysis of textured mechanical components;
- Novel and high-efficient surface texturing technologies;
- Performance prediction of textured contact interfaces;
- Reliability of surface textured mechanical components.
Dr. Risheng Long
Dr. Lin Zong
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- tribological properties
- surface texture
- dynamics modeling and analysis
- bio-mimetic
- deep learning
- prediction and diagnosis
- optimization
- reliability
- mechanical components
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