What is A Tribometer Used For?
Tribometers study wear, friction, and lubrication on interacting surfaces. When two surfaces rub together, they create friction. Over time, these two surfaces create wear. Therefore, the applications of tribometers is universal and their analysis impact our everyday life.
What are the applications of tribometers?
Tribometer analysis and their friction technology can be seen in daily life. Simple examples are car brakes and their longevity. Or a phone’s touch screen and its durability. Rtec Instruments manufactures tribometers and provides the failure analysis needed to improve products and mechanical systems.
What industries use tribometers?
Because friction is everywhere, tribometers play a major role in improving the efficiency of industrial products and energy conservation. Therefore, Rtec tribometer applications are found in a wide range of industries. Such as aerospace, automotive, biomaterials, hard coatings, optics and glass, polymer, semiconductors, and so much more.
A Tribometer for Any Application
Application specific solutions
Rtec Instruments’ Universal Tribometer contains versatility and modularity that provides several tribological and mechanical testing solutions for various industries. Today it is widely used to measure friction coefficient across lubricant, grease, bio, automobile, semiconductor, aerospace, materials, ceramics, space industries, and more. To get correct friction force, it is important to conduct experiments in conditions close to the real application. Our Universal Tribometer provides custom motions, wide load range, customized holders and drives to generate meaningful data with ease.
High Temperature (Up to 1200° C)
Mechanical
- Materials Summary
- Hot Hardness
- 3,4 Point Bending
Cryogenic
Corrosion Testing
- Tribocorrosion
- Salt Spray
Industrial
Tribometer Applications and Solutions
Due to multiple configurations and model options, each Rtec-Instruments tribometer provides solutions for a wide range of industries:
Aerospace
- Thermal Spray Coatings
- Wear Resistance
- Fretting
- Vacuum
- High Temperature
- Cryogenic
- Abrasion, Erosion Resistance
Automotive
- Brake Testing
- Marr Resistance, Scratch Adhesion
- Thermal Spray Coatings
- Oil, Lubricant, Additives Testing
- Fretting and Wear Resistance
- Engine Related Tests
- Tribology, Friction, and Wear
Bio-materials
- Coatings Adhesion
- Scratch Resistance
- Fretting and Wear Resistance
- Corrosion
Ceramics
- Scratch Resistance
- Tribology and Friction Testing
Hard Coating
- Indentation
- Scratch Resistance
- Fretting
- Turning and Tapping Torque
- High Temperature
Lubricants
- Block on Ring, Timken, OK, EP
- 4Ball Wear and EP
- Rotary pin, ball, ring on disk
- HFRR
- SRV
- Tapping Torque, TCT, Drilling
- Piston Ring Liner
- Thrust Washer
- Low Temperature Testing
- High Temperature Testing
- Linear Reciprocating
- Variable Rolling to Sliding
Metal
- Hot Hardness
- Scratch Hardness
- Tribology and Friction Testing
- High Temperature
Optics and Glasses
- Scratch Resistance
- Indentation
Pharmaceutical
- Tribology and Friction
Polymer
- Scratch Resistance
- Indentation
- High Temperature
- Turning and Tapping Torque
Semicon
- Indentation
- Scratch Resistance
- Tribology and Friction Testing
Need Versatility?
Take a closer look at the Multi Function Tribometer, MFT-5000
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Learn about our Multi Function Benchtop model, the MFT-2000
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