Tribological Design in Real-Life Applications—the Lubricant Perspective
A special issue of Lubricants (ISSN 2075-4442).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 2519
Special Issue Editor
Interests: lubrication; mechanical transmissions; rheology; solid-body mechanics; tribology
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Dear Colleagues,
For many years, Tribology has made tremendous progress in the understanding of the fundamental mechanisms that govern the phenomena which take place at the interface between contacting surfaces. Scientific efforts in both experimental and theoretical research allowed us an insight into these phenomena down to the molecular level, in most varied systems and in very different environments like for example biological, space, machine components, micro-electro-mechanical systems, and many others. All these advances offer areas of research and valuable tools to academics but the true gain is in applying them to practical situations; for this reason, the topic of this Special Issue is the “tribological design in real-life applications—the lubricant perspective”. The focus is thus on how various phenomena, which we associate with tribology such as for example friction, wear, corrosion, adhesion, the interaction between lubricant and solid surfaces influence the durability, reliability and functionality of systems. We will look at any application where tribological considerations influence the design focusing on the lubricant, the lubricant composition and its interaction with the solid surfaces. I invite researchers from both the industry and academia to contribute to this issue with either review or novel work that reveals the contribution of tribology to improving the design process in many fields.
Dr. Romeo Glovnea
Guest Editor
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