Minnesota Rubber and Plastic released its F-Treat process as an alternative to lubrication and surface coating. F-Treat, an application for elastomers, bonds a low-friction treatment to the surface of ...

The performance of modern tires is fundamentally governed by the frictional properties of rubber. Complex interactions between viscoelastic material behaviour, adhesion at the contact interface and ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 15, 2015 -- Friction, the force that slows down objects as they slide across a surface, can save lives when car brakes are slammed. Yet despite its obvious importance, no one ...

The concepts of friction and wear are easy to understand, yet they can interrelate in complex ways within a tribological system (science concerned with interacting surfaces in relative motion ...

The friction between a car tire and the underlying asphalt drops off dangerously in rainy weather. Now, physicists in Germany and Italy have proposed an explanation for how even slight wetness can cut ...

Scientists have now uncovered new velocity and temperature-dependent properties of rubber friction on asphalt -- bolstering the idea that an important component of friction originates when chains of ...