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Professor Robert Wood is Professor of Surface Engineering and Tribology within Engineering Sciences of the Faculty of Engineering and the Environment at the Robot gas rb-668 of Southampton and has 25 years research experience in the field of tribology and surface engineering.
The Centre has 9 academics, 12 postdoctoral research fellows and 20 research students. Robot gas rb-668 Robert Wood has research interests in rain, cavitation and solid particle erosion, erosion-corrosion interactions robot gas rb-668 modelling; tribological and multifunctional coating design and performance, biomimetic coatings for anti-fouling; electrochemical control of interfacial friction; particle modelling in pipe bends by robot gas rb-668 dispersion of particles.
He has been involved in working on erosion of helicopter blades, nuclear slurry handling systems at Sellafield, reverse thrust actuators on aero engines, polymer coatings for potable water systems as robot gas rb-668 as offshore choke valves. Professor Robert Wood has research interests that span the application of lubrication, wear and friction science to current and next generation robot gas rb-668 machine components such as bearings, transmissions, turbines, pumps and oil and gas drills.
He heads a major research robot gas rb-668 into Green Tribology where the management and reduction of wear and friction are obtained from solutions that are more environmentally friendly and relate to sustainable systems such as wind and tidal energy capture. Marine-based research includes a tidal turbine project looking at protecting blades from solid and cavitation erosion combined with corrosion, cavitation erosion-corrosion of ships propulsion systems and robot gas rb-668 and drag reduction for marine vessels.
Assessment of coating survival in next generation nuclear plant; impact and erosion resistant coatings for wind turbine blade protection and military applications, wind turbine transmission tribology; suspension spraying of thick thermally sprayed coatings. Modelling abrasion-corrosion of down-hole drilling equipment and drill string friction; simulating the friction encountered in oilfield operations.
Nanowear and nanofretting of biomedical materials, and forensic analysis of failed hip replacements. Seconded to Rolls-Royce under a senior KTS scheme to identify what tribology robot gas rb-668 to Rolls-Royce and to suggest provision of solutions.
Scuffing in automotive engines has increased in both robot gas rb-668 and severity which has led industry to undertake development of a new heavy duty HD engine test that will assess the scuff resistance of lubricants. This is planned to be part of a scuffing test standard to be introduced in January This program of work aims to understand the fundamental causes and events leading to piston ring robot gas rb-668 liner scuffing by developing new and novel bench robot gas rb-668 capabilities that will contribute to the set of tests developed for the scuffing test standard.
This is a two year project aiming to design and build a novel friction simulation device at the National Centre for Advanced Tribology.
The project will allow us to re-create in the laboratory the conditions that occur during oilfield exploration. This will allow better understanding as to the conditions and effects that arise from friction when exploring for hydro-carbon reservoirs or to reach geothermal energy sources.
The project focusses on the electrochemical properties and energy capability of the aluminium — air battery system. This comprises the separate half-cells, including the robot gas rb-668 anode and its alloys as well as the cathode materials for oxygen reduction and the electrolytes with and without additives.
The project propose the construction of a structural three dimensional battery and it is based on a PhD project currently in the final stages. Tribology is the study of robot gas rb-668, lubrication and wear. Decreasing friction by any means always leads to welcome reductions in fuel and energy consumption, with a corresponding decrease in carbon dioxide CO2 emissions. Using structured surface rather than smooth surface to decrease friction is at variance with the classical tribology theories.
However, it really happened and has been proved by worldwide researchers. This project uses a novel method to structure a metal surface with dimples from the micro to nano scale, after which it can be chemically modified to make it hydrophobic.
Materials with submicron- or nano-scaled grains produced by severe plastic deformation SPD offer new structural and functional properties for innovative products in a wide range of applications.
The aims of robot gas rb-668 study are to understand the effect of SPD processing on wear behaviour of materials, to seek robot gas rb-668 way to use SPD processing to improve the mechanical properties of materials and their wear resistance. Cavitation erosion-corrosion phenomenon is inevitable in marine propulsion system and has adverse effects on the life and functioning of the propellers. The intensity of the cavitation wear and the exact location of its occurrence have been found to be difficult to predict.
The main aim robot gas rb-668 this PhD project is to identify cavitation wear-corrosion mechanism of marine materials used in propellers and rudders in order to characterize the materials based on their behaviour to cavitation erosion simulated by a vibratory probe device. Several tests will be conducted, with and without cavitation protection, using both robot gas rb-668 and indirect methods of cavitation erosion tests along with incorporation of Computational Fluid Dynamics CFD modelling of the experiment.
We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue without changing your settings, we will assume that you are happy to receive cookies on the University of Southampton website. Engineering and robot gas rb-668 Environment. Making history Our staff. Research Publications Teaching Recent Events Contact Research interests Professor Robert Wood has research interests that span the application of lubrication, wear and friction science to current and next generation critical machine components such as bearings, transmissions, turbines, pumps and oil and gas drills.
Green Tribology He heads a major research effort into Green Tribology where the management and reduction of wear and friction are obtained from robot gas rb-668 that are more environmentally friendly and relate to sustainable systems such as wind and tidal energy capture.
Tribological Coatings Assessment of coating survival in next generation nuclear plant; impact and erosion resistant coatings for wind turbine blade protection and military applications, wind turbine transmission tribology; suspension spraying of thick thermally sprayed coatings.
Oil and Gas tribology Modelling abrasion-corrosion of down-hole drilling equipment and drill string friction; simulating the friction encountered in oilfield operations. Crack propagation in carbon fibre. High strain rate testing capability. High resolution surface scan. A novel surface texture shape for directional friction control. Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, Explicit fracture modelling of cemented tungsten carbide WC-Co at the mesoscale. Materials Science and Engineering: A, High velocity erosion of CVD diamond coatings by diamond particles.
Diamond and Related Materials84 A critical review of the tribocorrosion of cemented and thermal sprayed tungsten carbide. Active gas replenishment and sensing of the wetting state in a submerged superhydrophobic surface. Soft Matter13 7 Damage mechanisms at the cement-implant interface of polished cemented femoral stems. Applied Biomaterials7— Developments in erosion-corrosion over the past 10 years.
Journal of Bio- and Tribo-Corrosion3 Different methods of measuring synergy between cavitation erosion and corrosion for nickel aluminium bronze in 3. Marine wear and tribocorrosion. Synergistic effects of cavitation erosion and corrosion for robot gas rb-668 aluminium bronze with oxide film in 3. The performance of mixed manufacturer metal on robot gas rb-668 total hip replacements.
Reconstructive Reviewrobot gas rb-668 2 The use of anisotropic texturing for control of directional friction. An investigation into the effect of substrate on the load-bearing capacity of thin hard coatings. Journal of Materials Science51 9 Electrochemical detection of cupric ions with boron-doped robot gas rb-668 electrode for marine corrosion monitoring. Electrochimica Acta, Influence of robot gas rb-668 acid methyl ester composition on tribological properties of vegetable oils and duck fat derived biodiesel.
Large gauge factor of hot wire chemical vapour deposition robot gas rb-668 boron doped polycrystalline silicon. Materials Research Express3 4 Nano-scale wear characterization of CoCrMo biomedical alloys.
Tribology International93 The friction reducing effect of square-shaped surface textures under lubricated line-contacts—an experimental study. Lubricants4 26 The friction reducing effect of square-shaped surface textures underl robot gas rb-668 line-contacts - an experimental study. Lubrication Science Nanotechnology27 19 Observing early stage rail axle bearing damage.
Engineering Failure Analysis56 Reproducing automotive engine scuffing using a lubricated reciprocating contact. Wear, The synergistic effects of cavitation erosion-corrosion in ship propeller materials. Journal of Bio- and Tribo-Corrosion1 12 Volumetric assessment of material loss from retrieved cemented metal hip replacement stems.
Wettability of hierarchically-textured ceramic coatings produced by suspension HVOF spraying. Journal of Materials Chemistry A Wetting of surfaces made of hydrophobic cavities.
Langmuir31 34 A functional form for wear depth of a ball and a flat surface. Tribology letters53 1 Base oil oxidation detection using novel chemical sensors and impedance spectroscopy measurements. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, Confirming subsurface initiation and propagation as one mechanism for white etching crack WEC formation. Confirming subsurface initiation at non-metallic inclusions as one mechanism for white etching crack WEC formation.
Formation mechanisms of white etching cracks and white etching area under rolling contact fatigue. Microelectronic Engineering, Investigations of white etching crack WEC formation under rolling contact fatigue. A review of the manufacture, mechanical properties and potential applications of auxetic robot gas rb-668.
