Tribology is the science and engineering of interacting surfaces in relative motion. Tribology is key to successfully address a series of the most pressing technical and social challenges. This EPFL seminar series is aimed at a broad audience of engineers and scientists from academia and industry.
INNOVATION FIELD «DIGITAL PRINTING TO COMPLEX SHAPES»: High-quality decorative or functional surfaces are important quality features of products. Digital inkjet printing as a contactless, flexible & resource-saving printing process opens up enormous innovation potential. However, printing on free forms of three dimensional objects brings weighty mechanical-physical and fluid-dynamic challenges.After the state of the art and the individual application complexity have …