THE CHALLENGE OF STUDYING TRIBOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS ON THE LABORATORY SCALE

Emmanuel GEORGIOU, Angelos KOUTSOMICHALIS, Dirk DREES, Jean-Pierre CELIS, Νikolaos VAXEVANIDIS

Abstract


This work presents briefly an overview of the challenges that the authors face every time they want to study an actual tribo-contact and transfer it to a lab-scale test. In particular, the approach that developed over the years on how to simplify a tribo-contact and accelerate a tribo-test, while maintaining the correlation to the initial application is analyzing. This approach is demonstrated by a series of case-studies where existing industrial tribological problems are analyzed transferred to a relevant test. Moreover, another major issue which is the variability of wear results is addressing. Repeatability and data reliability is recognized as an important major challenge in the field of tribology. The outmost goal is to develop relevant, reliable, and repeatable test procedures which are vital for Research & Development and Quality Control activities

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