Literature application notes
Research applications of TriboSolver and earlier Tribology Simulator tools: the problems, methods and lessons from published literature.
Why does ice friction change with temperature and roughness? Explore research using Tribology Simulator to connect surface contact with sliding behaviour.
Discover how humidity and nanoscale gaps influence capillary adhesion, and how contact simulations helped researchers explain friction between rough surfaces.
Understand running-in wear and how researchers used measured topography and contact simulations to connect changing asperities with friction and pressure.
Learn why protective tribofilms grow and wear away, and how a coupled contact-mechanics model was used to investigate their evolving thickness.
Explore how optical measurements and TriboSolver contact calculations can be compared—and why contact-area agreement is different from pressure validation.
Learn how real contact area connects friction measurements to shear strength, and how researchers separated contact mechanics from surface chemistry.
See how rough-surface contact calculations helped researchers investigate fracture aperture and hydraulic flow, including the limits of the modelling approach.
Learn how nanoscale gaps affect electroadhesion and how contact simulations supported low-voltage research. Distinguish adhesive force from pressure.
Explore how TriboSolver contact calculations helped interpret ceramic–glass experiments, and why calculated pressure must be distinguished from measured wear.