Space tribometers: Design for exposed experiments on orbit

Tribology Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 303-311

  Krick, Brandon A ^a   Sawyer, W Gregory ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerospace; Coating; Low earth orbit; Solid lubricants; Space tribology; Tribometers

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE; ATOMIC OXYGEN; BULK SAMPLES; DOPED DLC; EXTREME CONDITIONS; INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATIONS; LOW EARTH ORBITS; LOW-EARTH ORBIT; NORMAL LOADS; ON ORBIT; PIN ON DISK; PIN-ON-DISK TRIBOMETERS; SLIDING VELOCITIES; SPACE TRIBOLOGY; TESTING MATERIALS; TRIBOMETERS; UV RADIATION; WEAR TRACKS;

COATINGS; COMMUNICATION SATELLITES; DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); EARTH (PLANET); EXPERIMENTS; GOLD COATINGS; MANNED SPACE FLIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; NANOCOMPOSITES; OXYGEN; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SOLID LUBRICANTS; SPACE STATIONS; TRIBOLOGY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VACUUM APPLICATIONS;

ORBITS;

EID: 78650869913     PISSN: 10238883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11249-010-9689-y     Document Type: Article

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