TY - GEN
T1 - Importance of tribology in engineering design
AU - Brostow, Witold
AU - Buchman, Alisa
AU - Buchman, Eli
AU - Datashvili, Tea
AU - Lobland, Haley E.Hagg
AU - Olea-Mejia, Oscar
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - From economical point of view wear is of the most important aspects of viability of an industrial enterprise. Mobile components in structures undergo wear and need to be replaced. This is particularly important for polymer based materials (PBMs). New methods have to be developed for wear mitigation in PBMs. Several such methods are under investigation showing positive results: blending, application of magnetic fields, application of radiation, and creation of micro- and nano-composites such as metal filler in polymer matrix. Working in this area we have provided a definition of material brittleness since no quantitative definition has existed before. At the conference these and other developments in tribology of PBMs will be reported from the point of view of informed design of materials structures.
AB - From economical point of view wear is of the most important aspects of viability of an industrial enterprise. Mobile components in structures undergo wear and need to be replaced. This is particularly important for polymer based materials (PBMs). New methods have to be developed for wear mitigation in PBMs. Several such methods are under investigation showing positive results: blending, application of magnetic fields, application of radiation, and creation of micro- and nano-composites such as metal filler in polymer matrix. Working in this area we have provided a definition of material brittleness since no quantitative definition has existed before. At the conference these and other developments in tribology of PBMs will be reported from the point of view of informed design of materials structures.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:70349087325
SN - 9780791848364
T3 - 2008 Proceedings of the 9th Biennial Conference on Engineering Systems Design and Analysis
SP - 555
EP - 559
BT - 2008 Proceedings of the 9th Biennial Conference on Engineering Systems Design and Analysis
T2 - 2008 9th Biennial Conference on Engineering Systems Design and Analysis
Y2 - 7 July 2008 through 9 July 2008
ER -