Tribological Wear

Documentation Tribology Wear, Friction and Lubrication, BAM (Federal Inst, for Testing Materials), Berlin (biennial)... 

Often the production of new materials such as composite materials heavily involves processes at interfaces. Thin films on surfaces are often dominated by surface effects. Examples are latex-films, coatings, and paints. The flow behavior of powders and granular media is determined by surface forces. In tribology, wear is reduced by lubrication which again is a surface phenomenon. 

Interesting results are obtained by atomic force microscopy (AFM, adhesive mode) after tribological wear and tear tests like the disc on wheel system. The surfaces of the disc and also the wheel were investigated by adhesive mode to determine the influence of PTFE. 

Tribological wear analysis of laser surface treated TI6AI4V based on... 

Keywords Surface treatment, tribological wear, laser treatment, metrological evaluation, titanium alloy. 

Ling, F.F. (1990) Fractals, engineering snrfaces and tribology. Wear, 136 141-56. 

Frederick T, Wallenberger T, Norman E (2004) Natural fibers, plastics and composites. Springer Friedrich K, Lu Z, Hager AM (1995) Recent advances in polymer composites tribology. Wear 190 139-144... 

For structural ceramics, there is a big number of the tribological wear resistance tests, where the tested sample may contact the moving flat surface, while the tested... 

Bahadur, S., 2000. The development of transfer layers and their role in polymer tribology. Wear 245, 92-99. 

M. Belin and J. M. Martin, In situ Structural Changes of Lubricated Surfaces, as Studied by EXAFS, Proc. Leeds-Lyon Symp. on Tribology-Wear Particles (D. Dowson et al., eds.), Elsevier 1992, p. 413. 

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