Tribology is the science of rubbing surfaces and contributes to every facet of our everyday life, from live cell friction to engine lubrication and seismology. As such tribology is truly multidisciplinary and this extraor-dinary breadth of scientific interest is reflected in the scope of Tribology International. Tribology International seeks to publish original and novel research papers of the highest scientific quality to provide an archival resource for scientists from all backgrounds. Written contributions are invited reporting experimental and modelling studies both in established areas of tribology and emerging fields. Scientific topics include the physics or chemistry of tribo-surfaces, bio-tribology, surface engineering and materials, contact mechanics, nano-tribology, lubricants and hydro-dynamic lubrication.

Editor

Philippa CannTribology GroupDepartment of Mechanical Engineering,Imperial College London,SW7 2AZ,UK

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International Advisory Editorial Board

M.J. AdamsResearch and Engineering Division, Unilever Research Port SunlightLaboratory, Wirral, UK

M.D. BermudezUniversidad Politecnica de Cartagena, Cartagena, Murcia, Spain

S.K. BiswasMechanical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

A. ChateauminoisEcole Superieure de Physique et Chimie Laboratoire PCSM Paris, France

D. DiniImperial College London, London, UK

K. FriedrichInstitute for Composite Materials Ltd, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany

M. GeeNational Physical Laboratory, Teddington, Middlesex, UK

S. HsuGeorge Washington University,Germantown, MD, USA

I.M. HutchingsInstitute for Manufacturing University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

M.M. KhonsariDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Louisiana State Building, Baton Rouge, LA, USA

A.A. LubrechtLaMCoS, INSA de Lyon, France

A. MartiniUniversity of California at Merced, Merced, CA, USA

K. MiyoshiCentre for Advanced Materials and Technology, Nippon Institute of Technology (NIT), Saitama, Japan

M. PriestSchool of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

B. Bou-SaïdINSA de Lyon, Villeurbanne, France

S.K. SinhaDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 119260, Singapore

N.D. SpencerLaboratory for Surface Science & Technology, Department of Materials Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland

G.W. StachowiakDepartment of Mechanical & Materials Engineering, University of Western Australia, Nedlands WA, Australia

M. StackDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

J. SugimuraKyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

J. WilliamsDepartment of Engineering University of Cambridge Cambridge, UK

R.J.K. WoodSchool of Engineering Sciences, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, UK

Si-Wei Zhang Technical Research Center of Wearproof Materials, University of Petroleum, Beijing, China

Zhong ZhangNational Center for NanoScience and Technology, Zhongguancun, Beijing, China

Editorial Assistant

C. MyantImperial College London, London, UK