Abstracts for 2018 STLE Tribology Frontiers Conference

• Control ID 2958710 - Full assessment of micromachine friction within the rate-state framework
• Control ID 2963035 - Fingertip Friction of a Braille Display and Neural Correlates
• Control ID 2978013 - Coils in Oils: Molecular-Scale Mechanisms of Viscosity Modifiers Function
• Control ID 2981361 -The Mechanisms of Folding and Wear Particle Generation in Metallic Tribosystems
• Control ID 2983609 - Making and Braking of Superslick Surfaces

• Control ID 2907759 - Shorter more regular activity improves cartilage function compared to longer less regular activity
• Control ID 2953551 - Evaluation of a Superior Water-Based Lubrication Behavior of Polyvinyl Alcohol on Styrene-Ethylene-Butylene-Styrene Block Copolymer
• Control ID 2980299 - Fabrication of Bioinspired Superliquiphobic Synthetic Leather with Self-Cleaning and Low Adhesion
• Control ID 2980326 - Lessons from Mosquitoes' Painless Piercing
• Control ID 2998957 - Shear-controlled attachment of biomimetic wall-shape adhesive microstructure
• Control ID 3001519 - Elucidating the effects of hydrogel molding
• Control ID 3001718 - Full-Scale Design and Calibration of a Novel Cell Culture System for Calibrated Generation of CoCrMo Wear Debris
• Control ID 3001909 - Microindentation-based experiment and modeling to examine rate-dependent crack nucleation in cartilage
• Control ID 3002012 - Elucidating the relationship between contact stresses and applied loads of cartilage explants
• Control ID 3002018 - The effects of contact stress and articulation amplitude on fluid load support in articular cartilage
• Control ID 3003637 - Friction-Induced Inflammation: Cells, Gels and Shear

• Control ID 2971557 - Self-healing behavior and tribological performance of dynamic crosslinked polymers
• Control ID 2982551 - Tribocharging mechanisms explained with an experimental and theoretical approach
• Control ID 2998417 - Friction at a single layer graphene edge on graphite: Part 2 Simulation study with molecular dynamics
• Control ID 3001324 - Friction of a single layer graphene edge on graphite: part 1 Experimental study with atomic force microscopy
• Control ID 3001745 - Atomic-scale insight into contacts between nanoscale bodies: In-situ experiments and matches atomistic simulations
• Control ID 3001908 - The Effect of Asperity Geometry on Elastic-Plastic Statistical and Multi-Scale Rough Surface Contact Models 
• Control ID 3001948 - Experiment measurements of roughness-dependent adhesion in hard-materials contacts
• Control ID 3001954 - Experimental investigation into the combined effects of roughness and stiffness in soft-materials adhesion
• Control ID 3001976 - Contact mechanics vs Amonton's Law in friction - Experiment and computational study
• Control ID 3002073 - Quantitative determination of the contact size for a platinum nanocontact

• Control ID 2974522 - Effect of Manufacturing Tolerances on the Load Capacity of Parallel Sliders Operating under Thermoelastohydrodynamic (TEHD) Regime
• Control ID 2976374 - Numerical modelling of frictional behavior in rough compliant contacts under lubricated conditions
• Control ID 2978551 - Performance evaluation of thrust foil bearings considering fluid structure interaction
• Control ID 2981760 - Possibilities of application of water lubricated thrust bearings in vertical shaft hydro-generators
• Control ID 2983329 - Frictional behavior of reference fluid on a border of full film lubrication
• Control ID 2983598 - Water lubricated bearing bush thermal properties as a key parameter for durable operation
• Control ID 2985736 - Contact Condition Dependence of Scuffing Modes in Gear Steels Following Loss of Lubrication
• Control ID 2996673 - EHD Lubrication under forced oscillations: A combined theoretical and experimental approach
• Control ID 2999652 - Study on the Pad Posture and Static Characteristic of Fluid Pivot Journal Bearing
• Control ID 2999844 - Film thickness prediction in Zero Entrainment Velocity line contacts: The squeeze film effect
• Control ID 3001488 - Investigations on the influence of lubricant starvation in large size spinning contacts
• Control ID 3001821 - Efficient solution of the rough elastohydrodynamic lubrication problem by virtue of periodic homogenization and offline parametric model order reduction
• Control ID 3001932 - Experimental Evaluation of Polymeric Fluid Film Thrust Bearings
• Control ID 3002036 - A Mixed Thermal Elasto-hydrodynamic Lubrication Model for Crowned Roller Contacts
• Control ID 3002051 - Effect of Thermal Degradation of Base Oil on the Performance of Friction Modifier Additive
• Control ID 3003611 - Flow Factor Modeling of Power-Cylinder Component in Hydrodynamic Lubrication
• Control ID 3019076 - Fluid film friction in two directions of EHL contact under lateral micro-oscillation
• Control ID 3019320 - Experimental Evaluation of Polymeric Fluid Film Thrust Bearings

• Control ID 2968837 - Organic Liquid Generated from DLC during Laser Heating
• Control ID 2975291 - Visualising cavitation in a piston ring-liner type contact to understand surface texture behavior
• Control ID 2978745 - An Interferometric Apparatus for the Measurement of Oil Film Thickness in a Journal Bearing
• Control ID 2978747 - Nanoparticle image velocimetry in an elastohydrodynamic contact
• Control ID 2981513 - The Growth of OFM SAMs by Ellopsometry
• Control ID 2995012 - A Novel Optical Micro Apparatus for Adhesion and Friction Force Measurement
• Control ID 2996684 - A multi-physical and scale approach to tackle rubber/ice friction mechanisms
• Control ID 3001158 - A novel non-intrusive in situ technique for mapping temperature and pressure throughout lubricated contacts
• Control ID 3001802 - Crystalline structure analysis of subsurface layer of steel created during scuffing
• Control ID 3001819 - In-situ Raman-Slim observation for formation process of tribofilms under boundary lubrication
• Control ID 3002071 - Quantifying and tracking asperity scale wear during microscale wear measurements

• Control ID 2975855 - Lubrication behavior and mechanism of mica-organic hybrid solid lubricants synthesized via intercalation reaction
• Control ID 2976210 - Effects of detergent (water) contamination on grease performance
• Control ID 2980339 - Characterization of water-based lubricants with nanoclays under extreme pressure
• Control ID 2981874 - Low Friction and Anti-wear Mechanisms of Molybdenum Based FMs on Boron-doped DLC
• Control ID 2983209 - Viscoelasticity of polyisobutylene-added polyalphaolefn sheared in submicron-to-nanometer-sized gap range
• Control ID 2983256 - Detergent nanoparticles facilitate MoDTC-induced tribochemical friction reduction through shear stress under interfacial confinement
• Control ID 2987937 - The Viscosity at the Glass Transition of a Liquid Lubricant
• Control ID 3001383 - Compatibility of Ionic Liquids with an Organic Friction Modifiers in Lubricating a Steel-Bronze Contact
• Control ID 3001687 - Rheology of fuel contaminated lubricant
• Control ID 3001946 - Development of a surfactant modified nanolubricant containing MWCNT
• Control ID 3002028 - Influence of the lubricant on the limiting friction regime

• Control ID 2971477 - Lubricant Influences on the Formulation of White Etching Cracks (WEC)
• Control ID 2979658 - Measurement of Load and Lubrication in a Wind Turbine Main Shaft Bearing in the Field
• Control ID 2981239 - Evaluation of cavitation erosion characteristics of high bulk modulus oils
• Control ID 2981667 - The Influence of Material Properties and Steel Cleanliness on the Formation of White Etching Cracks
• Control ID 2982537 - Tribological Improvement of Angular Contact Ball Bearings Operated under Small Pivoting Angles by Surface Texturing
• Control ID 2982599 - The Effect of Lubricant Composition on the Formation of White Etching Cracks
• Control ID 2982632 - Experimental evidence of Schallamach wave-induced self-excitation in a belt-drive system
• Control ID 2985201 - The lubricant formulation: One driver for premature bearing failures and white etching cracks
• Control ID 2985455 - Surface and subsurface initiated white etching cracking in bearings: Mechanisms and mitigation
• Control ID 3001742 - Influence of Inclusion Morphology on the Fatigue Limit of Bearing Steels
• Control ID 3001964 - Influence of mesh and geometrical parameters on the performance of a wet clutch disc by means of CFD simulations
• Control ID 3002062 - An Approach to Effective and Efficient Lab Evaluation of Engine Ring and Liner Wear and Scuffing
• Control ID 3002133 - Effect of Molecular Structure of synthetic oils on decomposition and hydrogen generation in rolling contact
• Control ID 3041374 - Investigating the effect of retained austenite on white etching crack behavior of carburized steel under boundary lubrication
• Control ID 3060275 - Effect of Transient Loads on Premature Bearing Failures in Wind Turbine Drivetrain

• Control ID 2948613 - Tribogical Performance of PM400 Bushing in Oscillatory Sliding from 25 to 900 °C
• Control ID 2983029 - Superlubricity on steel at macroscale using Graphene-nanodiamond
• Control ID 2983275 - High-temperature abrasive wear studies of high alloyed cast irons
• Control ID 2992222 - The effect of repeated versus non-repeated reciprocating sliding on the tribological behaviour of a hydrogenated DLC and a Ti-MoS₂ coating
• Control ID 2995871 - High Temperature Sliding Wear Behavior of Ni Alloys Under Helium Environment
• Control ID 2996500 - Effect of Rubber Seal on the Dynamic Friction Behavior of Cylinder
• Control ID 2999871 - Alternative Oil Wear Debris Analysis Method for Aero Engine
• Control ID 3000351 - Experimental and numerical analysis of damage of WC composites under impact-sliding
• Control ID 3001495 - Pin-on-disc and dynamometer investigation of low-metallic and NAO friction materials sliding against cast iron: Performance and wear mechanisms
• Control ID 3001699 - Rail steel wear in rolling-sliding conditions with microstructural correlation
• Control ID 3001735 - Contact Yield Initiation in Case Hardened Steel
• Control ID 3002009 - Some Observation of the Contact Failure Response of DLC Coated Steels under Severe Tribological Conditions
• Control ID 3002025 - A Direct Experimental Link between Atomic-scale and Macroscale Friction
• Control ID 3002038 - High Temperature Nano-Indentation/Scratch of Ni Alloys Oxide Layer Under Helium Environment
• Control ID 3002082 - A Predictive Thermokinetic Model of Friction in MoS2
• Control ID 3002112 - Effect of filler and environmental gas on wear of rubbers in reciprocating sliding contact
• Control ID 3007247 - MXene Dependent Wear Resistant Surfaces
• Control ID 3044584 - Better Understanding of Hydrogen Embrittlement
• Control ID 3048355 - Enhancement of Wear Behavior of Base Oil by Reduced Graphene Oxide Additives
• Control ID 3057724 - Environmental Factors in Degradation of MoS2 Tribological Behavior
• Control ID 3062896 - N and B Doped Graphene with Different Configurations and Their Tribological Properties

• Control ID 2975759 - Wear of PTFE /PEEK Composite: Theory and Experiments
• Control ID 2978756 - Effect of temperature on tribology of PBI/PEEK blend
• Control ID 2981999 - Micromechanisms of transfer film formation and sliding wear of PEEK
• Control ID 2982142 - Ultralow wear of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) composite filled with ceramic particles
• Control ID 2983035 - The Wear Mechanism and Friction of PEEK Simulation Gear Applications
• Control ID 3001761 - Tribological Insensitivity of an Ultra-Low Wear PEEK-PTFE Polymer Blend to Changes in Environmental Moisture
• Control ID 3001916 - Low Friction of PAN-based carbon fiber filled PTFE in high-purity hydrogen
• Control ID 3002083 - Microstructural and chemical changes in perfluoroalkoxy polymer (PFA) improve lifetime of PFA-alumina composite materials by 10,000x
• Control ID 3002086 - Ultralow Wear PTFE and Alumina Composites: The Role of Tribochemistry and Nanomechanics
• Control ID 3002088 - Improvement of microwear resistance of PDA/PTFE coatings by annealing

• Control ID 2981705 - Friction studies of silica slurries using a pin-on-disc rheometer with IC1000 pad surfaces
• Control ID 2983285 - Scratch testing from nano to macro scale
• Control ID 2991705 - A finite element fretting investigation of a plane-strain cylindrical contact of INCONEL 617/INCOLOY 800H at room and high temperature
• Control ID 2992294 - A universal model for the static friction coefficient in a full stick elastic plastic coated spherical contact
• Control ID 2995800 - Contact load and film thickness under three-body contact condition
• Control ID 3001153 - Optimization of Surfaces Texturing Using Cellular Automation Method - Application to Dry Gas Seal
• Control ID 3001563 - Temperature Analysis for the Tool-Sheet Interface in Single Point Incremental Forming (SPIF)
• Control ID 3001789 - Influence of Nano lubricants on Laser Surface Texturing (LST) to minimize Coefficient of Friction
• Control ID 3001896 - Three-Dimensional Semi-Analytical Model for Elastic Plastic Steady-State Tractive Rolling Contact
• Control ID 3001908 - The Effect of Asperity Gemoetry on Elastic-Plastic Statistical and Multi-scale Rough Surface Contact Models
• Control ID 3001922 - Stressed state of functionally graded elastic solids involved in dry contacts
• Control ID 3006286 - Conductive model of surface heat flux rastered over successive adjacent parallel tracks

• Control ID 2978057 - Mechanisms underlying lubrication of faults and implications for Earthquake nucleation
• Control ID 2983460 - Transition to low friction and wear regime in high speed silicon nitride/steel contacts
• Control ID 2983514 - The role of strain induced tribochemistry at nanoscale in reducing wear/friction at macroscale
• Control ID 2985669 - Initial Formation of reacted Tribofilms on Rough Surfaces Under Boundary EHL
• Control ID 2995308 - Mapping the tribochemical films across the cam profile when lubricated with oils containing MoDTC-type friction modifier
• Control ID 2998714 - Material-Department Wear Mechanisms of Soot in Presence of ZDDP
• Control ID 3001570 - Influence of tip material on the electrochemical response during scanning probe tribology in saltwater electrolyte
• Control ID 3001750 - Comparative study of tribofilm growth on steel surfaces in the presence of HFO and HFC refrigerants
• Control ID 3002016 - Effect of base oil chemistry on ZDDP film formation: Reducing hydrogen permeation in bearing steel
• Control ID 3012449 - A semi-deterministic model for MoS₂ formation and removal from MoDTC-containing oils in boundary lubrication

• Control ID 2974587 - Measuring pressure-solution mitigated friction forces between calcite surfaces with an extended surface forces apparatus (Tribochemistry)
• Control ID 2978300 - Viscous and adhesive contribution to hydrogel friction (Biotribology)
• Control ID 2981231 - Effect of boron concentration on two-body abrasive wear behavior of high boron high speed steel (Materials Tribology)
• Control ID 2981626 - Nanoscale study of the lubrication mechanisms of ionic liquid-polymer systems (Lubricants)
• Control ID 2981784 - Extreme pressure study of multi-walled carbon nanotube additives in water based lubricants (Lubricants)
• Control ID 2981818 - Optimization of cutting parameters of 1018 steel with montmorillonite clay nanolubricants (Lubricants)
• Control ID 2981879 - Effect of Nanoparticle Additive Size on Friction and Wear Properties of Synthetic Nanolubricants (Lubricants)
• Control ID 2981967 - Molecular insight into the slip of water and ions along the graphene plane (Surfaces & Interfaces)
• Control ID 2982184 - Effect of matrix on two-body abrasive wear of an Fe-B-Cr-C based alloy (Materials Tribology)
• Control ID 2982285 - Effect of milling time on the microstructure and mechanical properties of Mo₂FeB₂ based cermets (Energy, Environment & Manufacturing)
• Control ID 2982346 - Tribological behavior of in-situ nanosized TiB₂ particles reinforced Mg matrix composites (Materials Tribology)
• Control ID 2982865 - Optimization of machining process parameters of a 4340 steel using Halloysite Clay Nanotubes as lubricant additives (Lubricants)
• Control ID 2982869 - Study of the tribological performance of nanoclay additives in lubricants under extreme pressures (Lubricants)
• Control ID 2983568 - Using a patterned microtexture to reduce polyethylene wear in metal-on-polyethylene prosthetic bearing couples (Biotribology)
• Control ID 3001498 - Helical groove formation of rolling/sliding pairs on the oil-lack lubrication (Surfaces & Interfaces)
• Control ID 3001980 - Tribological Properties of Novel Superhydrophobic Concrete Pavements (Surfaces & Interfaces)
• Control ID 3001998 - Friction effects of physical diffraction grating on beetle elytra and tergites (Surfaces & Interfaces)
• Control ID 3033440 - Mechanochemistry of ZDDP tribofilm formation (Tribochemistry)
• Control ID 3045354 - Towards Understanding the Stability of Low Friction Nanostructures in MoS2
• Control ID 3049344 - The Effect of Hemodynamics on Mass Transport for Modelling Carotid Artery Stenosis (Biotribology)
• Control ID 3055531 - Factors driving the properties of PEEK transfer films (Polymers Tribology)
• Control ID 3058838 - Biolubricant additivation using raw MWCNTs containing Fe-Ni and Fe-Co particles (Lubricants)
• Control ID 3060829 - Friction Reduction Effect by the Combination Use of MoDTC and Organic Friction Modifiers (Lubricants)
• Control ID 3061447 - Interfacial Structure and Nanotribological Property of Adsorption Layer Formed by Polyacrylate Type Friction Modifiers Having Poorly-Oil-Soluble Units (Lubricants)
• Control ID 3065229 - Schallamach waves in rolling: Belt drives (Machine Elements & Systems)
• Control ID 3065267 - Replication and Tribological Testing of Physical Surfaces using Two-Photon Lithography
• Control ID 3065310 - Bio-Inspired Surface Engineering for Shear Induced Attachment (Biotribology)
• Control ID 3065425 - Impact of surface texturing on tribological performance of concentrated polymer brush (Materials Tribology)
• Control ID 3066444 - Nanotribological Property of Various Oiliness Additives in Lubricants Measured by Colloidal Probe AFM (Lubricants)
• Control ID 3067168 - Investigation of Lubricious and wear protective Carbon tribofilm from a metastable organic lubricant additive (Tribochemistry)
• Control ID 3067461 - A Microscale Study of Friction on Single-Crystal Molybdenum Disulfide Using a Combined Indenter Probe and Quartz Crystal Microbalance (Surfaces & Interfaces)
• Control ID 3067751 - Reactive Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Thermal Film Growth from Di-tert-butyl Disulfide on an Fe(100) Surface (Tribochemistry)
• Control ID 3068336 - Simulations of the effect of an oxide on contact area measurement using conductive atomic force microscopy (Surfaces & Interfaces)
• Control ID 3068381 - The Role of Organic Friction Modifier and Its Tribochemistry on Friction Reduction of Drilling Fluid under Boundary Lubrication
• Control ID 3068449 - In-Situ Optical Observation of Lubricating Film in Journal Bearings (In-Situ Tribometry)
• Control ID 3068524 - Nanomechanical and nanotribological characterization of nanometer ultra-thin composite films (Materials Tribology)
• Control ID 3068625 - The Effect of ATSP Coating on the Temperature Dependent Tribological Behavior of Polyamide Against Steel Counterface
• Control ID 3068703 - Quantifying and tracking asperity scale wear during microscale wear measurements (Other)
• Control ID 3068793 - Investigating the Mechanics of Contact Formation and Separation for Noble Metals at the Nanoscale (Surfaces & Interfaces)
• Control ID 3068848 - A Direct Experimental Link between Atomic-scale and Macroscale Friction (Materials Tribology)
• Control ID 3068880 - Clarifying Transfer Film Effects by Removing Them (Polymers Tribology)
• Control ID 3069789 - Cartilage fluid load support in the migrating contact area: How much migration is necessary? (Biotribology)
• Control ID 3070081 - Competitive Rates of Sliding Induced Fluid Recovery in Articular Cartilage (Biotribology)

• Control ID 2956328 - Attaching polymer to surface to achieve lubricity (Surfaces & Interfaces)
• Control ID 2963051 - Contact ageing in friction force microscopy experiments (Surfaces & interfaces)
• Control ID 2980085 - Extreme Condition Aerospace Tribology (Other)
• Control ID 2980577 - Tribo-Acoustic Sensors for In-Situ Measurement of Machine Element Contacts (Machine Elements & Systems)
• Control ID 2981293 - 3D Printing FFF Feedstock from Recycled Materials (Energy, Environment & Manufacturing)
• Control ID 2981415 - Structure evolution in tribological interfaces studied by multilayer model alloys (Material Tribology)
• Control ID 2981425 - Spying into the Complex World of Lubricants (Fluid Lubrication)
• Control ID 2982351 - Nanotribology Studies using Atomic Force Microscopy (Materials Tribology)
• Control ID 2983514 - The Role of Strain Induced Tribochemistry at Nanoscale in Reducing Wear/Friction at Macroscale
• Control ID 2985669 - Initial Formation of Reacted Tribofilms on Rough Surfaces Under Boundary EHL
• Control ID 3002007 - Shorter More Regular Activity Improves Cartilage Function Compared to Longer Less Regular Activity (Biotribology)
• Control ID 3003639 - Friction-Induced Inflammation: Cells, Gels and Shear (Biotribology)
• Control ID 3005650 - Wonders of Modelling in Tribology (Surfaces & Interfaces)
• Control ID 3005694 - Investigating microscale friction at high sliding speeds using a combined indenter probe and quartz crystal microbalance (Lubricants)
• Control ID 3016016 - Auburn University Tribology Research and Education (Other)
• Control ID 3063154 - Study of Evaluation Index Characterizing Dynamic Friction Characteristics in Shock Absorber
• Control ID 3068362 - Friction Reduction Effect of Sulfur-Containing Environment Acceptable Lubricants and Interpretation of the Mechanism by Wetting Parameters (Surfaces & Interfaces)
• Control ID 3068536 - Studies of Friction, Energy Dissipation and Chemical Reactivity of 2D Nanomaterials (Materials Tribology)
• Control ID 3069876 - Measurements of Friction Between Hand and Cleaning Pad to Quantitate Grippability (Surfaces & Interfaces)