Tribological Analysis

Tribology is the science that deals with the processes that occur during contact between materials. The study of the tribological properties of a material makes it possible to determine its coefficient of friction, resistance to wear, and thus test the efficiency of liquid or solid lubricants, under varying process conditions: temperature, materials used, applied load, speed, etc.

The equipment we use includes numerous configurations: block-on-ring, ball-on-disc, pin-on-disc, fretting, to best simulate real working conditions and solve problems such as

• verification of the effectiveness of anti-wear or anti-scratch coatings (chrome, PVD, paint);
• verification of the behaviour of lubricants at low or high temperatures;
• determination of the sliding friction coefficient of filled technical polymers (PTFE, MoS2, graphite).