Friction and wear of materials: principles and case studies

Dr. B.V. Manoj Kumar is currently working as Associate Professor in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. He has been teaching courses related to materials science, engineering ceramics and composites, and tribology for the more than 07 years. His research interests include tribology of advanced materials, development of structural ceramics and composites.

 

Prof. Bikramjit Basu is currently a Professor at the Materials Research Center with joint appointment at the Centre for Biosystems Science and Engineering and Interdisciplinary center for Energy Research at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He served on the faculty of IIT Kanpur during 2001-2011. As a researcher, he has made pioneering contributions towards innovative research at the intersection of multiple Engineering disciplines and Natural Sciences, to develop a wide spectrum of structural materials with wear resistance properties. Professor Basu has the rare distinction to receive India’s highest Science & Technology award, the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar prize (2013); and to get elected to the National Academy of Medical Sciences (2017), Indian National Academy of Engineering (2015) and to the National Academy of Sciences, India (2013). He is the third Indian from India to get elected to the college of Fellows of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (2017). He has received the ‘National Bioscience award’ from the Government of India in 2015; ‘Metallurgist of the Year’ award from the Ministry of Steels, Government of India, in 2010, and the NASI-Scopus award from Elsevier in 2010. He remains the only Indian from India, till date, to receive the prestigious ‘Coble Award for Young Scholars’ from the American Ceramic Society in 2008.

COURSE LAYOUT:

Week 1  :  Introduction; surfaces; friction; contact temperature; lubrication
Week 2  :  Wear, wear mechanisms
Week 3  :  Friction and wear of advanced metallic materials; basic fabrication concepts and overview of bioceramics and biocomposites
Week 4  :  Processing concepts of ceramics, mechanical behavior of brittle materials; wear behavior of ceramic composites
Week 5  :  Friction and wear of engineering polymers; Tribology of bioceramic composites, zirconia and dental restorative materials.
Week 6  :  Wear of nanoceramic composites; erosive wear of ceramic composites
Week 7  :  Cryogenic wear; Wear of high temperature ceramics
Week 8  :  Friction and wear of coatings, computational analysis in assessing wear, Closure

SUGGESTED READING MATERIALS:

• I.M. Hutchings; Tribology: Friction and wear of engineering materials, Second Edition, Butterworth-Heinemann (2017)

• Bikramjit Basu and Mitjan Kalin; Tribology of Ceramics and Composites: A Materials Science Perspective, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., (2011)

• Bikramjit Basu and Kantesh Balani; Advanced Structural Ceramics John Wiley & Sons, Inc., (2011)

• Bharat Bhushan, Principles and Applications of Tribology, Second Edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York (2013)