Tribology Letters

Cavitation Erosion Behaviors of a Nickel-Free High-Nitrogen Stainless Steel

• Original Paper

Yanxin Qiao, Zhaohui Tian, Xiang Cai, Jian Chen, Yuxin Wang, Qining Song, Huabing Li

Vacuum Tribological Performance of WS2–MoS2 Composite Film Against Oil-Impregnated Porous Polyimide: Influence of Oil Viscosity

• Original Paper

Zhen Yan, Dong Jiang, Yanlong Fu, Dan Qiao, Xiaoming Gao, Dapeng Feng, Jiayi Sun, Lijun Weng, Haizhong Wang

Frequency-Modulation Atomic Force Microscopic Observation for Ultralow Frictional Solid–Liquid Interface of Diamond-Like Carbon in an Environmentally Friendly Oil

Hikaru Okubo, Shinya Sasaki

A Mechanochemical Route to Cutting Highly Strain-Hardening Metals

• Original Paper

Anirudh Udupa, Koushik Viswanathan, Jason M. Davis, Mojib Saei, James B. Mann, Srinivasan Chandrasekar

Tribological Behaviors of Cu/AlMgB14 Composite Under Deionized Water and Liquid Paraffin

• Original Paper

Jiao Chen, Jun Cheng, Shengyu Zhu, Hui Tan, Zhuhui Qiao, Jun Yang

Effect of Nitride Layer Thickness on Reciprocating Sliding Wear Behavior of AlN Layers on Spray-Formed Al Alloys

• Original Paper

Anke Dalke, Anja Buchwalder, Rolf Zenker, Heinz-Joachim Spies

The Effect of Lubricant Composition on White Etching Crack Failures

• Original Paper

Benjamin Gould, Nicholaos G. Demas, Grant Pollard, Jakub Jelita Rydel, Marc Ingram, Aaron C. Greco

Effects of Normal Load on the Coefficient of Friction by Microscratch Test of Copper with a Spherical Indenter

• Original Paper

Chenghui Gao, Ming Liu

Friction Behavior of Esophageal Mucosa Under Axial and Circumferential Extension

• Original Paper

C. X. Lin, W. Li, H. Y. Deng, K. Li, Z. R. Zhou

Analysis of Carbon Nanotube Arrays for Their Potential Use as Adhesives Under Harsh Conditions as in Space Technology

• Original Paper

Christian Lutz, Zeyu Ma, Richard Thelen, Julia Syurik, Oleg Il’in, Oleg Ageev, Pierre Jouanne, Hendrik Hölscher

Use of X-ray Computed Tomography to Investigate Rolling Contact Cracks in Plasma Sprayed Fe–Cr–B–Si Coating

• Original Paper

Zhong-yu Piao, Zhen-yu Zhou, Jia Xu, Hai-dou Wang

On the Degradation of Tribo-components in Boundary and Mixed Lubrication Regimes

• Original Paper

K. P. Lijesh, M. M. Khonsari

A Stick-Slip Model Based on Granular Flow Theory

• Original Paper

John Tichy, Benyebka Bou-Saïd

On the Non-trivial Origin of Atomic-Scale Patterns in Friction Force Microscopy

• Open Access
• Original Paper

Dirk W. van Baarle, Sergey Yu. Krylov, M. E. Stefan Beck, Joost W. M. Frenken

Effects of Nanoscale Ripple Texture on Friction and Film Thickness in EHL Contacts

• Original Paper

Tomasz Woloszynski, Thomas Touche, Pawel Podsiadlo, Gwidon W. Stachowiak, Juliette Cayer-Barrioz, Denis Mazuyer

Severe-to-Mild Wear Transition of Ti–6.5Al–3.5Mo–1.5Zr–0.3Si Alloy Accelerated by Fe-Rich Oxide Tribo-layers

• Original Paper

Qiuyang Zhang, Xiaodong Guo, Man Zhang, Hongyan Ding, Guanghong Zhou

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Effects of Copper Nanoparticles Located in Different Regions of Polytetrafluoroethylene/Polyimide Blends on the Morphology, Mechanical and Tribological Properties of PTFE Composites

• Original Paper

Yuanliang Zhao, Xiaowen Qi, Wenli Zhang, Bingli Fan, Qingxiang Yang

Boundary Element Analyses on the Adhesive Contact between an Elastic Cylinder and a Rigid Half-Space

• Original Paper

Jiunn-Jong Wu

Structural and Morphological Transformations in Aqueous Graphite-Based Lubricant Subjected to Extreme Tribological Interactions of Low-Speed Intermittent Machining

• Original Paper

Wazeem Nishad, Sathyan Subbiah, M. Muralidhar

DLC and Glycerol: Superlubricity in Rolling/Sliding Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication

• Open Access
• Original Paper

Marcus Björling, Yijun Shi

The Contact Mechanics of Coated Elastic Solids: Effect of Coating Thickness and Stiffness

• Original Paper

N. Menga, C. Putignano, L. Afferrante, G. Carbone

Effect of Gas Environment on Mechanochemical Reaction: A Model Study with Tribo-Polymerization of α-Pinene in Inert, Oxidative, and Reductive Gases

• Original Paper

Xin He, Austin Pollock, Seong H. Kim

Diprotic Ammonium Succinate Ionic Liquid in Thin Film Aqueous Lubrication and in Graphene Nanolubricant

• Original Paper

M. D. Avilés, F. J. Carrión-Vilches, J. Sanes, M. D. Bermúdez

The Formation of a Modified Surface Layer on Elastomeric Materials

• Open Access
• Original Paper

M. Khafidh, D. J. Schipper, M. A. Masen

Investigation of PTFE Tribological Properties Using Molecular Dynamics Simulation

• Original Paper

Deng Pan, Bingli Fan, Xiaowen Qi, Yulin Yang, Xiuhong Hao

Reverse Stick-Slip on a Periodic Wedge-Shaped Micrograting

• Original Paper

Alper Özoğul, Stephan Gräf, Frank A. Müller, Enrico Gnecco

Contact Area and Shear Stress in Repeated Single-Asperity Sliding of Steel on Polymer

• Original Paper

Xian-Qiang Pei, Leyu Lin, Alois K. Schlarb, Roland Bennewitz

A Fractal Model of Acoustic Emission Signals in Sliding Friction

• Original Paper

Qiushi Hao, Yi Shen, Yan Wang, Xin Zhang

Intelligent Solid Lubricant Materials with Failure Early-Warning Based on Triboluminescence

• Methods

Hua Xu, Fu Wang, Zhaofeng Wang, Hui Zhou, Guangan Zhang, Jiachi Zhang, Jinqing Wang, Shengrong Yang

AFM at the Macroscale: Methods to Fabricate and Calibrate Probes for Millinewton Force Measurements

• Methods

N. T. Garabedian, H. S. Khare, R. W. Carpick, D. L. Burris

Thermal Conductivity and Flash Temperature

• Open Access
• Methods

Tom Reddyhoff, Aaron Schmidt, Hugh Spikes