Tribology Letters

Meeting the Contact-Mechanics Challenge

• Original Paper

Martin H. Müser, Wolf B. Dapp, Romain Bugnicourt, Philippe Sainsot, Nicolas Lesaffre, Ton A. Lubrecht, Bo N. J. Persson, Kathryn Harris, Alexander Bennett, Kyle Schulze, Sean Rohde, Peter Ifju, W. Gregory Sawyer, Thomas Angelini, Hossein Ashtari Esfahani, Mahmoud Kadkhodaei, Saleh Akbarzadeh, Jiunn-Jong Wu, Georg Vorlaufer, András Vernes, Soheil Solhjoo, Antonis I. Vakis, Robert L. Jackson, Yang Xu, Jeffrey Streator, Amir Rostami, Daniele Dini, Simon Medina, Giuseppe Carbone, Francesco Bottiglione, Luciano Afferrante, Joseph Monti, Lars Pastewka, Mark O. Robbins, James A. Greenwood

Deformation Measurements of Randomly Rough Surfaces

• Original Paper

Alexander I. Bennett, Sean Rohde, Kathryn L. Harris, Kyle D. Schulze, Juan Manuel Urueña, Angela A. Pitenis, Peter G. Ifju, Thomas E. Angelini, Martin H. Müser, W. G. Sawyer

Contact Measurements of Randomly Rough Surfaces

• Original Paper

Alexander I. Bennett, Kathryn L. Harris, Kyle. D. Schulze, Juan Manuel Urueña, Alexander J. McGhee, Angela A. Pitenis, Martin H. Müser, Thomas E. Angelini, W. Gregory Sawyer

Numerical Simulation on the Adhesive Contact Between Rough Surfaces with Bi-Conjugate Gradient Stabilized Method

• Original Paper

Jiunn-Jong Wu

Contact and Deformation of Randomly Rough Surfaces with Varying Root-Mean-Square Gradient

• Original Paper

Alexander J. McGhee, Angela A. Pitenis, Alexander I. Bennett, Kathryn L. Harris, Kyle D. Schulze, Juan Manuel Urueña, Peter G. Ifju, Thomas E. Angelini, Martin H. Müser, W. Gregory Sawyer

Tribological Properties of Spark Plasma Sintering TZ3Y20A–SrMoO4 Composites at Elevated Temperature

• Original Paper

Xiao-bing Li, Yu-Feng Li

Positron Annihilation Studies of the Near-Surface Regions of Niobium before and after Wear Treatment

• Open Access
• Original Paper

J. Dryzek, P. Horodek

Study of Separation Characteristics of Micro-groove Rotary Seal Considering Different Cavitation Boundary Conditions

• Original Paper

Bing Xue, Chao Wei, Ji Bin Hu

Pin-on-Disc Testing of Low-Metallic Friction Material Sliding Against HVOF Coated Cast Iron: Modelling of the Contact Temperature Evolution

• Open Access
• Original Paper

Matteo Federici, Giovanni Straffelini, Stefano Gialanella

Correlation of Disk Topography Waves with Nanometer-Scale Lubricant Moguls and Magnetic Head Media Spacing

• Original Paper

A. Ovcharenko, T. Karis, J-P. Peng

Interaction of a Sliding Wedge with a Metallic Substrate Containing a Single Inhomogeneity

• Original Paper

A. S. Vandana, Narayan K. Sundaram

On the Effect of Contact Geometry on Fretting Fatigue Life Under Cyclic Contact Loading

• Original Paper

G. H. Majzoobi, F. Abbasi

Dramatically Enhanced Film-Formation Performance Using O/W Emulsion Under Starving Feeding Mode

• Original Paper

Jiayin Fu, Xuefeng Xu, Jianbin Luo, Liran Ma

Friction Behavior at the Interface Between Surgical Sutures and Tissues

• Original Paper

Li Zhang, Wei Li, Chengxiong Lin, Zhongrong Zhou

The Influence of Base Oil Properties on the Friction Behaviour of Lithium Greases in Rolling/Sliding Concentrated Contacts

• Open Access
• Original Paper

N. De Laurentis, P. Cann, P. M. Lugt, A. Kadiric

On the Linearity of Contact Area and Reduced Pressure

• Original Paper

Martin H. Müser

Experimental Observation of Cavitation Under Point and Elliptical Contacts with Fluid Film Lubrication

• Original Paper

Xuefeng Wang, Rufu Hu, Mingjun Wang, Weiyan Shang

Influence of Grain Size and Contact Temperature on the Tribological Behaviour of Shape Memory Ti49.3Ni50.7 Alloy

• Original Paper

A. A. Misochenko, S. V. Chertovskikh, L. Sh. Shuster, V. V. Stolyarov

Nanoscale Wear Layers on Silicon Wafers Induced by Mechanical Chemical Grinding

Zhenyu Zhang, Yuefeng Du, Bo Wang, Ziguang Wang, Renke Kang, Dongming Guo

Characteristics of Dummy Skin Contact Mechanics During Developing Process of Skin Abrasion Trauma

• Original Paper

Xuewei Mao, Yoji Yamada, Yasuhiro Akiyama, Shogo Okamoto

The Braking Behaviors of Cu-Based Metallic Brake Pad for High-Speed Train Under Different Initial Braking Speed

• Original Paper

Tao Peng, Qingzhi Yan, Gen Li, Xiaolu Zhang, Zefeng Wen, Xuesong Jin

Peter J. Blau: Tribosystem Analysis: A Practical Approach to the Diagnosis of Wear Problems

• Book Review

Gwidon Stachowiak

The Influence of Aluminium–Silicon Alloy on ZDDP Tribofilm Formation on the Counter-Surface

• Open Access
• Original Paper

Yasunori Shimizu, Hugh A. Spikes

Methodology to Characterize Rheology, Surface Forces and Friction of Confined Liquids at the Molecular Scale Using the ATLAS Apparatus

• Original Paper

A. Crespo, D. Mazuyer, N. Morgado, A. Tonck, J.-M. Georges, J. Cayer-Barrioz

Friction and Tribochemical Wear Behaviors of Native Oxide Layer on Silicon at Nanoscale

• Original Paper

Lei Chen, Chen Xiao, Xin He, Bingjun Yu, Seong H. Kim, Linmao Qian

Influence of Zn Addition on Micro-scale Wear of Mg–xZn (x = 1–6 wt%) Alloys

• Original Paper

Shishir Keerti, Aditya Gokhale, Jayant Jain, E.-Wen Huang

Hydrothermal Synthesis of Monodisperse Hard Carbon Spheres and Their Water-Based Lubrication

• Original Paper

Guanggui Cheng, Lingjian Dong, Lakhinder Kamboj, Tushar Khosla, Xiaodong Wang, Zhongqiang Zhang, Liqiang Guo, Noshir Pesika, Jianning Ding

Dry Sliding Wear Mechanism of WC–13Ni Hard Alloy Irradiated by High-Intensity Pulsed Electron Beam

• Original Paper

F. G. Zhang

High Temperature Wear Behaviors of TiAl–TiB2 Composites

• Original Paper

Long Wang, Jun Cheng, Shengyu Zhu, Yuan Yu, Zhuhui Qiao, Jun Yang, Weimin Liu

Visualization of Wave Propagation and Fine Structure in Frictional Motion of Unconstrained Soft Microstructured Tapes

• Original Paper

Lars Heepe, Alexander E. Filippov, Alexander E. Kovalev, Stanislav N. Gorb

Correlating Molecular Structure to the Behavior of Linear Styrene–Butadiene Viscosity Modifiers

• Original Paper

Uma Shantini Ramasamy, Michelle Len, Ashlie Martini

A Quantitative Friction-Based Approach of the Limiting Shear Stress Pressure and Temperature Dependence

• Original Paper

S.-N. Ndiaye, L. Martinie, D. Philippon, N. Devaux, P. Vergne

Fretting Wear Study of PEEK-Based Composites for Bio-implant Application

• Original Paper

Jian Song, Zhenhua Liao, Hongyu Shi, Dingding Xiang, Yuhong Liu, Weiqiang Liu, Zhongxiao Peng

A Pin-on-Disc Study on the Wear Behaviour of Two High-Performance Railway Wheel Steels

• Original Paper

Michela Faccoli, Candida Petrogalli, Andrea Ghidini

Accelerated Fretting Wear Tests for Contacts Exposed to Atmosphere

• Original Paper

Vamshidhar Done, D. Kesavan, Marcus Huffman, Daniel Nelias

A Computational Study of the Effects of Strain Hardening in Micro-asperity Friction Models

• Original Paper

Pushkaraj Bhagwat, Bhargava Sista, Kumar Vemaganti

A New Contact Model for Multilayered Solids with Rough Surfaces

• Original Paper

Yassine Waddad, Vincent Magnier, Philippe Dufrénoy, Géry De Saxcé

Elastic Sinusoidal Wavy Surface Contact Under Full Stick Conditions

• Original Paper

Xianzhang Wang, Yang Xu, Robert L. Jackson

Effect of Atmosphere and Temperature on the Tribological Behavior of the Ti Containing MoS2 Coatings Against Aluminum

• Original Paper

G. Sun, S. Bhowmick, A. T. Alpas

Reflections on and Extensions of the Fuller and Tabor Theory of Rough Surface Adhesion

• Open Access
• Original Paper

J. A. Greenwood

The Running-in Tribological Behavior of Pb-Free Brass and Its Effect on Microstructural Evolution

• Original Paper

Lin Liu, Zhichen Zhang, Martin Dienwiebel

Adhesion and Friction Enhancement of Film-Terminated Structures against Rough Surfaces

• Original Paper

Zhenping He, Nichole M. Moyle, Chung-Yuen Hui, Benjamin Levrard, Anand Jagota

Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication with Oil Droplets

• Original Paper

S. Y. Li, F. Guo, X. M. Li, C. L. Liu

The Synergetic Effects of Surface Texturing and MoDDP Additive Applied to Ball-on-Disk Friction Subject to Both Flooded and Starved Lubrication Conditions

• Original Paper

Linqing Bai, Yonggang Meng, Zulfiqar Ahmad Khan, Varian Zhang

Relationship Between Nanoindentation and Wear Properties of Stainless Steel-Reinforced Aluminium Matrix Composite

• Original Paper

Ridvan Gecu, Ahmet Karaaslan

Low Wear Steel Counterface Texture Design: A Case Study Using Micro-pits Texture and Alumina–PTFE Nanocomposite

• Original Paper

Jiaxin Ye, Haiyang Zhang, Xiaojun Liu, Kun Liu

A Model for Lubricant Transfer from Media to Head During Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR) Writing

• Original Paper

Siddhesh V. Sakhalkar, David B. Bogy

An Improved Interference Method for Measuring Lubricant Film Thickness Using Monochromatic Light

• METHODS PAPER

Yingjun Chen, Ping Huang

Online Measurement of Lubricating Film Thickness in Slider-on-Disc Contact Based on Dichromatic Optical Interferometry

• METHODS

Qinghua Bai, Feng Guo, Pat Lam Wong, Peigang Jiang

An Integrated Force Probe and Quartz Crystal Microbalance for High-Speed Microtribology

• Methods

Brian P. Borovsky, Christopher Bouxsein, Cullen O’Neill, Lucas R. Sletten

Erratum to: Skin Microstructure is a Key Contributor to Its Friction Behaviour

• Erratum

Maria F. Leyva-Mendivil, Jakub Lengiewicz, Anton Page, Neil W. Bressloff, Georges Limbert