Impact of Tribology on society

The salient feature of this special issue on ‘Impact of Tribology on Society’ is to present recent advances in tribology emphasizing overall human wellbeing and economy. This special issue reports significant contribution from academicians, scientists, researchers, engineers, research scholars and students who participated in the International Tribology Research Symposium (ITRS 2020) organized online throughout 5th–7th November 2020. The registration charges are cancelled in ITRS 2020 to encourage participants to share their experiences and research results covering broad spectrum of topics related to Tribology. The organizing committee of ITRS 2020 is highly indebted to the renowned plenary, keynote, and invited speakers for discussing the most recent innovations and trends in the field of tribology. The innovations in tribological approaches are crucial to the economic success, sustainability and quality of life of society. The tribological systems are highly complex with a wide range of potential interlinked parameters demanding thorough investigations. The research contributions in this special issue are selected to render the reader an overview of the highly challenging multidisciplinary approaches impacting tribology on society. The special issue presents state-of-the-art in lubricant additives, highly challenging problems encountered under severe dynamic loading conditions, optimization of tribological properties based on simulations, tribological enhancements through advances in materials and coatings. The titles covered in this special issue are related to an overview of nanoadditives in lubricants, WEAs growth under dynamic loading, optimization of wear using ANN and Taguchi approaches, tribological characteristics of composites, and tribological behaviour of coatings. The potential advances in nanolubricants, understanding of WEAs, minimization of wear using machine learning, and tribological characteristics enhancement using composites and coatings may motivate the researchers advancing using multi-disciplinary approaches in tribology. The guest editors hope that the special issue highlighting the impact of tribology on society will serve as a useful reference to tribologists and provide the reader an insight of advances impacting tribology on society. Finally, we would like to thank Editor, Professor Tomasz Liskiewicz, Taylor and Francis publishing and our valued reviewers, for their enormous encouragement and involvement in this special issue.