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Friction plays a vital role in energy dissipation, device failure, and even energy supply in modern society. After years of research, data and information on tribology research are becoming increasingly available. Because of the strong systematic and multi-disciplinary coupling characteristics of tribology, tribology information is scattered in various disciplines with different patterns, e.g., technical documents, databases, and papers, thereby increasing the information entropy of the system, which is inconducive to the preservation and circulation of research information. With the development of computer and information science and technology, many subjects have begun to be combined with information technology, and multi-disciplinary informatics has been born. This paper describes the combination of information technology with tribology research, presenting the connotation and architecture of tribo-informatics, and providing a case study on implementing the proposed concept and architecture. The proposal and development of tribo-informatics described herein will improve the research efficiency and optimize the research process of tribology, which is of considerable significance to the development of this field.
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This study is financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (12072191, U1637206, and 51935007), the State Key Laboratory of Mechanical System and Vibration Project (MSV-ZD201912), and the Equipment Pre Research Project (61409230611).
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Zhinan ZHANG. He received his Ph.D. in Shanghai Jiao Tong University. From 2011 to 2013, he worked as a postdoc in Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is currently an associate professor and the dean assistant at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research interests include triboinformatics, contact electrification, computational design, and analysis of tribosystems.
Nian Yin. He received his B.S. degree and M.S. in mechanical engineering. in 2017 and 2020, respectively, from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. He is now working as a Ph.D. student at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research focuses on the computational design of materials, contact electrification, and development of tribology testing machine.
Shi Chen. He received his B.S. degree in mechanical engineering in 2016 from Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China. He is now working as a Ph.D. student at the School of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His current research interests focus on bearing dynamics and lubrication and tribology testing technology.
Chengliang Liu. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1999 from Southeast University, Nanjing, China. He is now working as a professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His current research interests focus on network-based remote monitoring and intelligent maintenance, mechatronics, and intelligent robots, and 3S (GPS, GIS, RS) agricultural equipment.
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Zhang, Z., Yin, N., Chen, S. et al. Tribo-informatics: Concept, architecture, and case study. Friction 9, 642–655 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40544-020-0457-3
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