Friction and Wear of Metals
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2021) | Viewed by 25689
Special Issue Editors
Interests: additive manufacturing; laser and electron beam powder bed fusion techniques; direct energy deposition; advanced character-ization of microstructure–properties relationship of additively manufactured materials; material design for additive manufac-turing
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Interests: high temperature tribology; friction and wear in dry contacts; tribomaterials; surface engineering for friction and wear control
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sustainable development, circular economy, and resource efficiency are all key elements for the global strive toward a sustainable world. Development of new technologies and engineering applications are the prerequisites to enable the transition to a sustainable society. New technologies and engineering applications increase demands on new products and processes focusing on higher energy efficiency, longer service life, and higher power density. In any moving machine assembly, this will translate into harsh operating conditions affecting frictional losses and durability of the materials. In most technological applications, the dominating engineering materials are metal alloys. Most of these materials possess, e.g., high mechanical and thermal properties, easy shaping for efficient production, and recyclability. Understanding the friction and wear mechanisms and characterizing the tribological performance are essential factors in the development and implementation of new metallic materials with improved performance for future sustainable technology.
Potential topics for this Special Issue on friction and wear of metals include but are not limited to the following:
- Tribology of novel metallic materials, including new manufacturing methods (additive manufacturing, powder metallurgy, etc.);
- Tribology of metals for electrification;
- High-temperature tribology of metals;
- Wear and friction in harsh environment (corrosive, vacuum, etc.);
- Wear protection by surface engineering and coatings;
- Novel sustainable lubrication.
Prof. Dr. Pavel Krakhmalev
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jens Hardell
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Friction and wear
- Wear mechanisms
- New tribomaterials
- High-temperature tribology
- Hard coating
- Lubrication
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