Abstract: Abstract. Tribology is the science and engineering dealing with friction, wear, and lubrication, and it was practiced already in ancient times, but the term tribology was only coined in 1966 after the Greek word Tribos ...

Abstract: A finite element analysis was used to study the onset of plasticity of a coated sphere compressed by a rigid flat. This was done for soft coatings on a harder substrate. Generally, the results agree very well with the ...