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12 - Aeronautical, Mechanical, Chemical and Manufacturing Engineering
University of Leeds
Subscale tribofilm tribological modelling in boundary lubrication using multivariate analysis
Funded by BP (chris.warrens@uk.bp.com) and utilised extensive statistically designed laboratory experiments to significantly enhance a physical model through multivariate analysis, leading to equations that empirically capture surface chemistry in a way not yet possible through ab initio chemical modelling. This approach is novel and very effective and this was a keynote presentation at the international conference Leeds-Lyon Symposium on Tribology, Lyon, 2009. The Technical Specialist for tribology at Ricardo UK, Dr Phil Carden (phil.carden@ricardo.com), commented by email “I congratulate you and your colleagues on really taking forward the practical modelling of friction and wear in this kind of system”.