... December 11, 2017; final manuscript received May 8, 2018; published online July 12, 2018. Assoc. Editor: Wang-Long Li. 11 12 2017 08 05 2018 Contact Contact area Contact mechanics Hardness Rolling Rolling fatigue Surface layers Surface properties Surface treatments Surfaces...

.... The incorporation of Nb into bearing steel promotes the formation of martensite and carbide particles, which results in the diversity of the wear behaviors, eventually. Bearings Dry friction Sliding Surface properties Wear mechanisms Characterization Bearing steel is a kind of steel used in ball...

... for advanced biomedical applications. Abrasion Friction Hardness Sliding Surface properties Surfaces Wear Characterization 15 08 2017 29 03 2018 Contributed by the Tribology Division of ASME for publication in the J OURNAL OF T RIBOLOGY . Manuscript received August 15...

... resistance [ 3 ]. Hardness Sliding Surface properties Wear Wear mechanisms Characterization The optical microstructure of the base solution-treated material (ST) is shown in Fig. 2 . The motivation behind solution treatment is to homogenize the microstructure. Solution treatment leads...

.... Assoc. Editor: Bart Raeymaekers. 07 12 2017 24 04 2018 Surface properties Surface treatments Tribological systems Wear Wear mechanisms Characterization Scalable surface texturing at the micro- and mesolength scales continues to receive significant attention from...

... methods are well maturing in terms of academic and industrial research. But, laser cladding process is associated with some limitation like higher installation and running cost, development of porosity, and interfacial cracking. Abrasion Coatings Dry friction Sliding Surface properties...

... . Manuscript received January 29, 2017; final manuscript received December 21, 2017; published online May 21, 2018. Assoc. Editor: Dae-Eun Kim. 29 01 2017 21 12 2017 Cavitation Erosion Hardness Micro-tribology Surface properties Surface roughness Surface treatments Wear Wear...

... area Interface Sliding Surface properties Wear Wear mechanisms Characterization As is well known, tribology is a discipline involving the physics, chemistry, and engineering of moving surfaces in contact. Understanding of surfaces deformation and of the resulting microstructural changes...

...; published online May 14, 2018. Assoc. Editor: Stephen Boedo. 21 11 2017 13 04 2018 Piston rings Sliding Surface properties Surface roughness Wear Characterization Asperities The piston ring/cylinder bore tribosystem is of utmost importance for engine performance...

... Coatings Surface layers Surface properties Wear Characterization Hard coatings are crucial for technological advances in the fields of modern precision machining [ 1 , 2 ]. Being one of the mostly used hard coatings, TiAlN has been widely used on the surfaces of metal cutting tools [ 3 – 6...

... Abrasion Coatings Friction Surface properties Surface roughness Surface treatments Wear Wear mechanisms Characterization Asperities As cemented carbide, YT15 with high red-hardness and wear resistance is primarily used for cutting various kinds of steels, which accounts for ∼50% of total...

.... 05 04 2017 09 10 2017 Coatings Hardness Sliding Surface properties Surface treatments Tribological systems Wear Wear mechanisms Characterization Copper and its alloys with high thermal and electrical properties with elevated chemical stability can be considered...

... . Manuscript received December 18, 2016; final manuscript received August 23, 2017; published online October 9, 2017. Assoc. Editor: Dae-Eun Kim. 18 12 2016 23 08 2017 Coatings Sliding Surface properties Wear Characterization The main cause of machine parts failure causing...

... . Manuscript received January 18, 2017; final manuscript received August 5, 2017; published online October 4, 2017. Assoc. Editor: Liming Chang. 18 01 2017 05 08 2017 Surface properties Surface roughness Characterization Asperities Surface topography plays a significant role...

... in the J OURNAL OF T RIBOLOGY . Manuscript received March 17, 2017; final manuscript received August 3, 2017; published online September 29, 2017. Assoc. Editor: Sinan Muftu. 17 03 2017 03 08 2017 Friction Nano-tribology Polymeric additives Surface properties Wear...

... ], chemical vapor deposition [ 8 , 9 ], synthesizing by dip-coating in boric acid and urea solutions [ 10 ], and ion-beam deposition [ 11 ] are employed to deposit BN films. Friction Surface properties Surface treatments Wear mechanisms Characterization 16 04 2017 28 06 2017...

... in copper. Also, nickel has good characteristics such as high strength and high toughness. Also, the FSP method has been successfully applied to fabricate solid solution alloying of metals surface to alter surface properties without changing the bulk material properties. There have been some efforts...

... by the Tribology Division of ASME for publication in the J OURNAL OF T RIBOLOGY . Manuscript received December 16, 2016; final manuscript received May 13, 2017; published online August 22, 2017. Assoc. Editor: Nuria Espallargas. 16 12 2016 13 05 2017 Dry friction Hardness Sliding Surface...

.... Editor: Satish V. Kailas. 19 10 2016 03 04 2017 Coatings Friction Surface properties Wear Wear mechanisms Characterization The investigation of the mechanical properties of many metallic coatings has attracted the attention of many researchers for several years. Many...