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  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,339 Views
7 Pages

Tribology Performance of Surface Texturing Plunger

  • Songbo Wei,
  • Hongfei Shang,
  • Chenglong Liao,
  • Junyuan Huang and
  • Bairu Shi

Plunger pumps are widely used in oil pumping units around the world. The water content of the wellbore is increasing along with the development progress, so the lubricating capacity of the well fluids between the plunger and barrel is decreasing corr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,297 Views
14 Pages

Laser surface texturing has proven beneficial in improving tribological performance in different lubrication regimes. However, the interaction between plateau roughness and surface texture remains to be further investigated, even though rough surface...

  • Review
  • Open Access
123 Citations
13,212 Views
15 Pages

Laser Surface Texturing for Biomedical Applications: A Review

  • Ishwer Shivakoti,
  • Golam Kibria,
  • Robert Cep,
  • Bal Bahadur Pradhan and
  • Ashis Sharma

22 January 2021

For generating a texture or pattern on a work surface, one of the emerging processes is laser surface texturing (LST). It is an effective method for producing texture on a work surface. Literature shows that various lasers have been applied to genera...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,224 Views
19 Pages

22 February 2020

Surface modification by different technologies prior to joining operations or improving tribological properties is a point of great interest. Improving surface activation by increasing the roughness of the metal is a relationship that is becoming mor...

  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,313 Views
30 Pages

Surface Texturing of Cylinder Liners: A Review

  • Pawel Pawlus,
  • Waldemar Koszela and
  • Rafal Reizer

3 December 2022

The effect of cylinder liners on engine performance is substantial. Typically, the cylinder surfaces were plateau honed. However, recently additional dimples or grooves were created on them. This work discusses the tribological impacts of textured cy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,459 Views
19 Pages

A Hybrid Approach to Surface Engineering Based on Laser Texturing and Coating

  • Matilde Barili,
  • Adrian H. A. Lutey,
  • Corrado Sciancalepore and
  • Luca Romoli

A hybrid approach based on laser texturing and surface coating for the combined modification of surface topography and chemistry has been proposed to provide a versatile approach for the development of functional surfaces. The experimental procedure...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,763 Views
14 Pages

The Effect of Surface Texturing on Dry Gross Fretting

  • Agnieszka Lenart,
  • Pawel Pawlus,
  • Slawomir Wos and
  • Andrzej Dzierwa

The effect of steel disc surface texturing on dry gross fretting in a ball-on-disc configuration was studied. Dimples were created with abrasive jet machining. The tribological performance of sliding pairs, steel–steel and steel–ceramics,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,889 Views
11 Pages

23 November 2016

Recently, there has been great interest in the application of the surface texturing method to enhance material surface performance. Material surfaces sometimes experience rapid temperature changes, and the local surface will obviously generate therma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,413 Views
17 Pages

Wettability and Surface Roughness Analysis of Laser Surface Texturing of AISI 430 Stainless Steel

  • Edit Roxana Moldovan,
  • Carlos Concheso Doria,
  • José Luis Ocaña,
  • Liana Sanda Baltes,
  • Elena Manuela Stanciu,
  • Catalin Croitoru,
  • Alexandru Pascu,
  • Ionut Claudiu Roata and
  • Mircea Horia Tierean

18 April 2022

Due to its wide applicability in industry, devising microstructures on the surface of materials can be easily implemented and automated in technological processes. Laser Surface Texturing (LST) is applied to modify the chemical composition, morpholog...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,874 Views
28 Pages

12 April 2024

Laser surface texturing has attracted growing interest, particularly in functional surface modification. Lasers with nanosecond pulse widths and infrared wavelengths are commonly used for metallic surface texturing because of their low cost and poten...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,078 Views
20 Pages

12 September 2023

The present study investigates the effect of partial surface texturing, containing large number of micro-dimples, in lubrication mechanisms. A CFD model is applied to examine the influence of partial surface texturing on pressure and velocity distrib...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
195 Citations
15,724 Views
42 Pages

Multi-Scale Surface Texturing in Tribology—Current Knowledge and Future Perspectives

  • Philipp G. Grützmacher,
  • Francisco J. Profito and
  • Andreas Rosenkranz

28 October 2019

Surface texturing has been frequently used for tribological purposes in the last three decades due to its great potential to reduce friction and wear. Although biological systems advocate the use of hierarchical, multi-scale surface textures, most of...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,211 Views
18 Pages

9 April 2024

Surface texturing, which has recently garnered increased attention, involves modifying the surface texture of materials to enhance their tribology. Various methods have been developed for surface texturing. Laser surface texturing (LST) has attracted...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,536 Views
11 Pages

Laser Micro-Texturing of Sintered Tool Materials Surface

  • Daniel Pakuła,
  • Marcin Staszuk,
  • Małgorzata Dziekońska,
  • Pavel Kožmín and
  • Adam Čermák

26 September 2019

The purpose of this paper is to show the effect of tool materials surface treatment while using laser texturing on the structure and properties of cemented carbides and sialon ceramics. The tests were made on multi-point inserts subjected laser textu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,013 Views
26 Pages

The Influence of Surface Texturing on the Frictional Behaviour in Starved Lubricated Parallel Sliding Contacts

  • Dariush Bijani,
  • Elena L. Deladi,
  • Matthijn B. de Rooij and
  • Dirk J. Schipper

Starvation occurs when the lubricated contact uses up the lubricant supply, and there is not enough lubricant in the contact to support the separation between solid surfaces. On the other hand, the use of textures on surfaces in lubricated contacts c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,331 Views
10 Pages

Fabricating the Superhydrophobic Nickel and Improving Its Antifriction Performance by the Laser Surface Texturing

  • Junyuan Huang,
  • Songbo Wei,
  • Lixin Zhang,
  • Yingying Yang,
  • Song Yang and
  • Zejun Shen

10 April 2019

The superhydrophobic surface can change the friction property of the material, reduce the adhesion of the friction interface, and produce a certain slip, thereby reducing the friction coefficient. The laser has high energy, high density, and is espec...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,968 Views
60 Pages

The Influence of Surface Texturing of Ceramic and Superhard Cutting Tools on the Machining Process—A Review

  • Sergey N. Grigoriev,
  • Thet Naing Soe,
  • Khaled Hamdy,
  • Yuri Pristinskiy,
  • Alexander Malakhinsky,
  • Islamutdin Makhadilov,
  • Vadim Romanov,
  • Ekaterina Kuznetsova,
  • Pavel Podrabinnik and
  • Nestor Washington Solís Pinargote
  • + 2 authors

6 October 2022

Machining is an indispensable manufacturing process for a wide range of engineering materials, such as metals, ceramics, and composite materials, in which the tool wear is a serious problem, which affects not only the costs and productivity but also...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,733 Views
19 Pages

The Influence of Surface Texturing on the Film Thickness in Starved Lubricated Parallel Sliding Contacts

  • Dariush Bijani,
  • Elena L. Deladi,
  • Matthijn B. De Rooij and
  • Dirk J. Schipper

In industrial applications, a starved lubrication condition may occur, leading to a reduction in film thickness; by modifying the surface geometry, the tribological performance of the contact is enhanced. In this paper, the influence of surface textu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,264 Views
15 Pages

Wetting Behavior Driven by Surface Morphology Changes Induced by Picosecond Laser Texturing

  • Carmelo Corsaro,
  • Gabriele Orlando,
  • Gabriele Costa,
  • Mariangela Latino,
  • Francesco Barreca,
  • Angela Maria Mezzasalma,
  • Fortunato Neri and
  • Enza Fazio

9 April 2024

The laser surface texturing (LST) technique has recently been used to enhance adhesion bond strength in various coating applications and to create structures with controlled hydrophobic or superhydrophobic surfaces. The texturing processing parameter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,121 Views
18 Pages

In many industrial applications, a modification of the surface geometry can enhance the tribological behaviour of lubricated sliding contacts. In this paper, the effect of surface texturing on the coefficient of friction in parallel sliding lubricate...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,550 Views
27 Pages

Tailoring the Coefficient of Friction by Direct Laser Writing Surface Texturing

  • Caterina Gaudiuso,
  • Annalisa Volpe,
  • Francesco Paolo Mezzapesa,
  • Carmine Putignano and
  • Antonio Ancona

20 December 2023

The modification of the surface topography at the micro- and nanoscale is a widely established as one of the best ways to engineering the surface of materials, to improve the tribological performances of materials in terms of load capacity and fricti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
924 Views
14 Pages

Study on Laser Surface Texturing and Wettability Control of Silicon Nitride Ceramic

  • Hong-Jian Wang,
  • Jing-De Huang,
  • Bo Wang,
  • Yang Zhang and
  • Jin Wang

17 July 2025

Silicon nitride (Si3N4) ceramic is widely used in the production of structural components. The surface wettability is closely related to the service life of materials. Laser surface texturing is considered an effective method for controlling surface...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,538 Views
7 Pages

Surface Texturing of Polyethylene Terephthalate Induced by Excimer Laser in Silver Nanoparticle Colloids

  • Jakub Siegel,
  • Tatiana Savenkova,
  • Jana Pryjmaková,
  • Petr Slepička,
  • Miroslav Šlouf and
  • Václav Švorčík

12 June 2021

We report on a novel technique of surface texturing of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) foil in the presence of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs). This approach provides a variable surface morphology of PET evenly decorated with AgNPs. Surface texturing o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,869 Views
25 Pages

CFD Modeling of the Effect of Different Surface Texturing Geometries on the Frictional Behavior

  • Luís Vilhena,
  • Marko Sedlaček,
  • Bojan Podgornik,
  • Zlatko Rek and
  • Iztok Žun

In order to understand the effect of surface texturing parameters on the frictional behavior of textured surfaces and to correlate results of different lubrication regimes, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) numerical analysis of the fluid flow was p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
6,418 Views
14 Pages

Various textures are fabricated by a picosecond laser machine on the surfaces of circular stainless steel specimens. Vibrational and tribological effects of laser surface textures are investigated by means of a tribometer and a data acquisition and s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,965 Views
20 Pages

Hierarchical Surface Texturing of Hydroxyapatite Ceramics: Influence on the Adhesive Bonding Strength of Polymeric Polycaprolactone

  • Jonas Biggemann,
  • Philipp Müller,
  • David Köllner,
  • Swantje Simon,
  • Patrizia Hoffmann,
  • Paula Heik,
  • Jung Heon Lee and
  • Tobias Fey

The tailored manipulation of ceramic surfaces gained recent interest to optimize the performance and lifetime of composite materials used as implants. In this work, a hierarchical surface texturing of hydroxyapatite (HAp) ceramics was developed to im...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,267 Views
12 Pages

26 April 2024

Displacement mapping is a computer graphics technique that enables the design of components with regularly or randomly textured surfaces that can be quickly materialized on a three-dimensional (3D) printer when needed. This approach is, in principle,...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,179 Views
9 Pages

A Simple Model to Predict Machined Depth and Surface Profile for Picosecond Laser Surface Texturing

  • Jieyu Xian,
  • Xingsheng Wang,
  • Xiuqing Fu,
  • Zhengwei Zhang,
  • Lu Liu and
  • Min Kang

1 November 2018

A simple mathematical model was developed to predict the machined depth and surface profile in laser surface texturing of micro-channels using a picosecond laser. Fabrication of micro-craters with pulse trains of different numbers was initially perfo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,880 Views
18 Pages

Surface texturing is designed to improve the functional properties of machine elements by generating dimples on the surface contacted. Friction and wear resistance can also be improved by creating diamond-like carbon (DLC) coatings. These two techniq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
6,503 Views
10 Pages

Effect of Low Depth Surface Texturing on Friction Reduction in Lubricated Sliding Contact

  • Haytam Kasem,
  • Ori Stav,
  • Philipp Grützmacher and
  • Carsten Gachot

Laser surface texturing is an interesting possibility to tailor materials’ surfaces and thus to improve the friction and wear properties if proper texture feature sizes are selected. In this research work, stainless steel surfaces were laser te...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
4,114 Views
9 Pages

Influence of Laser Texturing on Microstructure, Surface and Corrosion Properties of Ti-6Al-4V

  • Marjetka Conradi,
  • Aleksandra Kocijan,
  • Damjan Klobčar and
  • Matjaž Godec

11 November 2020

We present the modification of Ti-6Al-4V surfaces with a diode end-pumped Nd:YVO4 laser by varying the distance between laser-produced micro(μ)-channels. We analyzed the influence of laser texturing on the morphology, microstructure, surface and c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,551 Views
11 Pages

11 June 2021

The constant development of environmental protection causes the necessity to increase the efficiency of machines. By increasing the efficiency of machines, energy losses can be limited, leading to lower energy consumption. Friction reduction leads to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,754 Views
19 Pages

Preclinical In Vitro Assessment of Submicron-Scale Laser Surface Texturing on Ti6Al4V

  • Luiz Schweitzer,
  • Alexandre Cunha,
  • Thiago Pereira,
  • Kerstin Mika,
  • Ana Maria Botelho do Rego,
  • Ana Maria Ferraria,
  • Heinz Kieburg,
  • Sven Geissler,
  • Eckart Uhlmann and
  • Janosch Schoon

25 November 2020

Loosening of orthodontic and orthopedic implants is a critical and common clinical problem. To minimize the numbers of revision surgeries due to peri-implant inflammation or insufficient osseointegration, developments of new implant manufacturing str...

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,680 Views
18 Pages

Influence of Surface Texturing on the Dry Tribological Properties of Polymers in Medical Devices

  • Isabela Evangelista,
  • Dorota Wencel,
  • Steve Beguin,
  • Nan Zhang and
  • Michael D. Gilchrist

28 June 2023

There is a constant need to improve patient comfort and product performance associated with the use of medical devices. Efforts to optimise the tribological characteristics of medical devices usually involve modifying existing devices without comprom...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,086 Views
10 Pages

31 July 2019

Surface geometry has had an influence on the surface property, in addition to the intrinsic surface energy, of materials. Many physical surface modification methods had been proposed to control the solid surface geometry for modification of surface p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
4,913 Views
12 Pages

Tribological Behavior of Titanium Alloy Treated by Nitriding and Surface Texturing Composite Technology

  • Jiajie Kang,
  • Mingzheng Wang,
  • Wen Yue,
  • Zhiqiang Fu,
  • Lina Zhu,
  • Dingshun She and
  • Chengbiao Wang

18 January 2019

This study experimentally investigated the effect of surface textures on the tribological mechanism of nitrided titanium alloy (Ti–6Al–4V). The titanium alloy samples were nitrided at various temperatures ranging from 750 to 950 °C fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
1,426 Views
15 Pages

The tribological behavior of silicon nitride (Si3N4) ceramic with textured patterns under water lubrication was investigated in this paper. Different textured patterns were fabricated using laser surface texturing (LST). Surface wettability was chara...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,509 Views
16 Pages

Friction Reduction in Unidirectional Lubricated Sliding Due to Disc Surface Texturing

  • Slawomir Wos,
  • Waldemar Koszela,
  • Andrzej Dzierwa and
  • Pawel Pawlus

29 February 2020

Surface texturing is an option of surface engineering resulting in reduction of friction due to the creation of isolated dimples or grooves on sliding surfaces. The purpose of this work is to find the effect of the groove bottom profiles on the reduc...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
6,466 Views
9 Pages

19 March 2018

The running-in behavior and the associated transient friction characteristics of a piston ring with different surface treatments are experimentally evaluated using a custom-made engine testing apparatus. Results are reported for a series of running-i...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,465 Views
26 Pages

Skin-pass cold rolling is a crucial step in sheet metal production, modifying the sheet surface topography, ensuring thickness uniformity, and enhancing tribological performance. A key factor in this process is the surface texturing of work rolls, wh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,689 Views
13 Pages

Non-Uniform Laser Surface Texturing of an Un-Tapered Square Pad for Tribological Applications

  • Antonio Ancona,
  • Gagandeep Singh Joshi,
  • Annalisa Volpe,
  • Michele Scaraggi,
  • Pietro Mario Lugarà and
  • Giuseppe Carbone

Femtosecond laser surface micro-texturing has emerged as a promising technology to enhance the tribological properties of different kinds of electromechanical devices. In this research paper, we have exploited the intrinsic flexibility and micrometri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,377 Views
9 Pages

14 January 2021

Si surfaces were texturized with periodically arrayed oblique nanopillars using slanted plasma etching, and their optical reflectance was measured. The weighted mean reflectance (Rw) of the nanopillar-arrayed Si substrate decreased monotonically with...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,884 Views
22 Pages

Laser Surface Texturing of Cutting Tools for Improving the Machining of Ti6Al4V: A Review

  • Javier Garcia-Fernandez,
  • Jorge Salguero,
  • Moises Batista,
  • Juan Manuel Vazquez-Martinez and
  • Irene Del Sol

12 December 2024

The machining of titanium alloys, particularly Ti6Al4V, presents a significant challenge in manufacturing engineering. Its high strength, low thermal conductivity and high chemical reactivity make Ti6Al4V a hard-to-machine material. However, the mach...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,823 Views
16 Pages

Tribological Performance of Diamond-like Nanocomposite Coatings: Influence of Environments and Laser Surface Texturing

  • Sergei M. Pimenov,
  • Evgeny V. Zavedeev,
  • Olga S. Zilova,
  • Alexander P. Lepekhov,
  • Beat Jaeggi and
  • Beat Neuenschwander

30 September 2021

Diamond-like nanocomposite (DLN) films (a-C:H:Si:O films) are characterized by their unique structure and remarkable tribological properties to be pronounced under various environmental and surface modification conditions. In this paper, we investiga...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,307 Views
18 Pages

Effect of Chemical Surface Texturing on the Superhydrophobic Behavior of Micro–Nano-Roughened AA6082 Surfaces

  • Amani Khaskhoussi,
  • Luigi Calabrese,
  • Salvatore Patané and
  • Edoardo Proverbio

24 November 2021

Superhydrophobic surfaces on 6082 aluminum alloy substrates are tailored by low-cost chemical surface treatments coupled to a fluorine-free alkyl-silane coating deposition. In particular, three different surface treatments are investigated: boiling w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,737 Views
9 Pages

5 December 2020

The aim of this research was to investigate the influence of laser surface texturing sequence on the fatigue properties of cold-work tool steel. For this reason, polished hourglass-type test specimens made from cold-work tool steel (K890) were surfac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,569 Views
22 Pages

Combined Use of Surface Texturing, Plasma Nitriding and DLC Coating on Tool Steel

  • Elisangela Aparecida dos Santos de Almeida,
  • Julio Cesar Giubilei Milan,
  • César Edil da Costa,
  • Cristiano Binder,
  • José Daniel Biasoli de Mello and
  • Henara Lillian Costa

9 February 2021

In cold rolling, a textured roll can be used to imprint a desired surface topography onto the sheet during rolling. This work proposes the use of diamond-like carbon (DLC) coatings to protect the surface topography of the rolls in replacement of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,061 Views
13 Pages

Laser surface texturing is an efficient way to control the friction and wear properties of materials. Although described in many papers, most previous work relates to a pure topographic view of laser-textured surfaces. As lasers are heat sources, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,277 Views
10 Pages

22 July 2020

The poor tribological performances of titanium have significantly limited its applications in the field of artificial joints. In order to solve problems regarding the wear and corrosion of artificial joints in the body, we fabricated the composite ma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,081 Views
17 Pages

Ultrafast Laser Surface Texturing: A Sustainable Tool to Modify Wettability Properties of Marble

  • Ana J. López,
  • Alberto Ramil,
  • José S. Pozo-Antonio,
  • Teresa Rivas and
  • Dolores Pereira

28 July 2019

Conservation strategies to reduce the degradation of stone caused by the action of water are focusing on increasing the hydrophobicity of the surface by imitating existing solutions in nature (lotus leafs and others). These are mainly based on the ex...

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