{"id":108008,"date":"2017-12-11T09:23:21","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T09:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/research\/?post_type=facilities&#038;p=108008"},"modified":"2021-08-09T05:27:41","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T05:27:41","slug":"tribology-laboratory","status":"publish","type":"facilities","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/research\/facilities\/tribology-laboratory\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribology Laboratory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Tribology_Lab_cropped-800x795-1.jpg\" alt=\"Tribology lab equipment\" class=\"wp-image-118353\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The multidisciplinary Tribology Laboratory is equipped with the instruments for friction and wear measurements from Rtec Instruments (Universal Tribometer), Ducom Instruments (Linear Reciprocating Tribometer, Abrasion Tester (dry sand\/rubber wheel ASTM G65)) and for optical surface imaging from Altimet (AltiSurf 530, surface roughness ISO standards).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The laboratory is also equipped with a number of custom-built rigs, including FZG gear test, tribo-corrosion (low stress) and pin-on-disk (reciprocating, unidirectional) rigs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Contact:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/staffportal.curtin.edu.au\/staff\/profile\/view\/Pawel.Podsiadlo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr Pawel Podsiadlo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116277,"template":"","faculties":[51],"research_areas":[37,40],"class_list":["post-108008","facilities","type-facilities","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","faculties-science-and-engineering","research_areas-biomedical-and-clinical-science","research_areas-structural-engineering-and-monitoring"],"acf":{"video":"","facility_info":{"video":""}},"featured_image":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/facilities\/108008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/facilities"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/facilities"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/facilities\/108008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/research\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"faculties","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculties?post=108008"},{"taxonomy":"research_areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research_areas?post=108008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}