Modern methods to retrieve innovative material solutions for tribosystems
A numerical, tribological data collection system with 12,100 data records was developed to find materials for tribological operations. The databse enables the user to search, retrieve and display information and data about the appropriate material couples in a fast and conventient way. The database is intended to be used by researchers, engineers, consultants and developers. All tribological characteristics of the listed materials are directly comparable; the data has been compiled and put into a standardized form, which covers the specific properties of nearly all tribometers used. The structure and the precisely defined formats may help guide future scientists and engineers to organize, archive and publish their tribological tests and results in a complete and comprehensive way.
Coatings Tribology: Properties, Techniques and Applications in Surface Engineering
Surface coating methods tribology of coatings tribological properties of coatings coating characterization and evaluation coating selection applications.
Neotectonic rotations in the Orava-Nowy Targ Intramontane Basin (Western Carpathians): An integrated palaeomagnetic and fractured clasts study
Abstract The objectives of this contribution are: (1) to promote the application of fractured clasts analysis in conglomerates for regional stress reconstructions and (2) to advance reconstruction of the Western Carpathians structural development. Our results show that the Neogene fill of the Orava-Nowy Targ Intramontane Basin underwent CCW rotation of about 30°. We infer that the rotation terminated after 8 Ma and was related to shift along NW-SE to NNW-SSE trending faults at the NE termination of the sinistral Mur-Žilina Fault Zone. Our results show that, fractured clasts analysis can be good tool for regional tectonic reconstructions. The tool is especially useful when other tectonic tools are scarce or absent. Results of our palaeomagnetic study and fractured clasts analysis verify and supplement each others. In the studied case, palaeomagnetic results allow to distinguish between regional stress field rotation and rotation of the Orava-Nowy Targ Basin Neogene fill, whereas, results of fractured clast analysis help to constrain the age of rotation.