Department Engineering Mechanics   Tribology

Associate Professor: Dr.ir. A. van Beek

Mechanical engineering is imaginary without moving parts. Considering the necessity to control friction and wear, the meaning of tribology is clear.

Due to progress in industrial engineering there is a growing demand on engineers with interest for tribology. Some examples of these progresses result from the growing need for improved lifetime, performance, quality, less maintenance and environmental aspects like the attention for material and engergy consumption.

The research is focussed beyond design aspects of tribology. This implies the development of design tools to predict and to optimize lifetime and performance. Modelling plays an important part. Recent subjects are: thin films in metal forming, transport of ceramic rods on air cushions, lock gates running on thin water films, counter rotating propeller systems, dynamic aspects of grinders, the design of a waterjet rotor.

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