Advances in Industrial Maintenance: Materials, Technologies and Devices
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Mechanics of Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 March 2023) | Viewed by 2589
Special Issue Editors
Interests: tribology; reliability; maintenance
Interests: biomechanics; (bio) tribology; human movement analysis; computational mechanics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is well known that tribology is the science dealing with friction, lubrication, and wear. It is actually an interdisciplinary topic that is deeply connected with other scientific disciplines.
At the same time, however, applied tribology is a research field whose applicability in industry is nowadays extremely wide and that has close links with industrial maintenance.
Industrial maintenance is the science that deals with maintaining or restoring the functions of industrial systems. In fact, maintenance seeks to remove the effects of friction and wear on industrial systems and to find lubrication systems and lubricants that can contribute to this goal.
The purpose of this SI is to contribute to the understanding of wear mechanisms in industrial systems in order to prevent and reduce it and improve lubrication systems.
We also wish to identify maintenance management systems that take into account tribological aspects, in all their complexity, in the context of the transition to Industry 4.0.
Prof. Dr. Nicolae Stelian Ungureanu
Prof. Dr. Alessandro Ruggiero
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- tribology
- maintenance
- reliability
- wear
- lubrication
- sustainability
- clean production
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