Tribology is the science of rubbing, friction and wear. When biological systems especially human joints such as knees, hips etc which continuously move relative to one another are studied, tribology becomes biotribology. To understand the wear performance of the implant and effects of synovial fluid principles of biotribology are required. In this paper few papers are reviewed related to applic...

Aim The aim of this study is to compare the country output and citation impact as well as to assess the level of interdisciplinarity in the field of tribology research across the period 1998 – 2012. Data & Methods Bibliographic records related to tribology research were extracted from SCOPUS and Web of Science databases for the period of 15 years from 1998 to 2012. Macro-level scientometric ind...

Tribological research is the study of lubrication, friction, and wear. Tribology of biomaterials is to study how the materials work and fail. This will help us to produce better biomaterials. Tribology plays a very important role in improving the design and making successful biomaterials for medical purposes. Joints of human body, such as hip, knee, jaw, dental parts etc., all need to consider ...

Tribology is the science and technology of interacting solid surfaces in relative motion, and its topics include the study of lubricants, lubrication, friction, wear, and bearings. It is estimated that friction and wear cost the US economy 6% of the gross national product [1]. For example, 5% of the total energy generated in an automobile engine is lost to frictional resistance. Also notable ar...

In current “state of the art” disk drives, the flying height between slider and disk is on the order of 10 nm. The flying height will need to be reduced to approximately 3 nm to meet future storage density goals. At a spacing of 3 nm, severe tribological problems will occur with respect to friction, wear and lubrication of the head/disk interface. In this paper, tribology and nano-tribology pro...