Tribology in Croatia: Challenges and Development

Dear Colleagues,

It is an honor and a privilege to be involved as the Guest Editor of a Special Issue of Materials focusing on the friction and wear of material surfaces.

Tribology plays a crucial role in the industry by improving many products and systems' performance, efficiency, reliability, energy efficiency, and safety. This leads to significant savings by reducing the need for maintenance, repair, and replacement globally and in Croatia.

The beginnings of systematic tribology research in Croatia started 40 years ago. The higher education and scientific activities of the development of tribology in Croatia started with the Chair of Materials and Tribology of the Department of Materials at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zagreb. Today, the scientific activity of tribology in Croatia includes many scientists, and their work was brought together in 1999 by the founding of the Croatian Society for Materials and Tribology (HDMT). Special emphasis is placed on monitoring the trends of research within the scientific discipline of tribology, which studies friction and wear of materials, as well as the procedures to protect machine parts. This Special Issue intends to show the recent tribological results in research and development in Croatia on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Croatian Society for Materials and Tribology.

In particular, the topics of interest in this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Tribological behavior of metallic and non-metallic materials;
• Wear, including adhesion, abrasion, and tribo-corrosion;
• Cavitation and erosion;
• Sub-surface stressing, fatigue spalling, pitting, micro-pitting;
• Surface topography of substrate and layer;
• Wear-resistant materials and coatings.

Your contribution to this Special Issue is highly valued and appreciated.

Prof. Dr. Danko Ćorić
Prof. Dr. Suzana Jakovljević
Guest Editors

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• tribology
• friction
• wear
• abrasion
• erosion
• adhesion
• tribo-corrosion
• surface fatigue
• lubrication
• ferrography
• surface engineering
• coating
• wear-resistant materials