Laboratory of Tribology
Research Scope:
Polymer-based self-lubricating and asbestos-free composite materials for
Low-Friction and High-Friction applications. Lubricants and additives,
boundary lubrication properties. Methods of motion vibrostability at
friction, friction transfer, self-lubricating and wear processes study
Head: Prof. Albert
Pogosian, Doctor of Technical Sciences,Chairman of Armenian Tribology
Committee, Vice-President of International Tribology Council, Head of
Graduate Division, Corresponding Member of National Academy of Sciences of
Armenia, ASME member
Department:
Mechanics and Machine Science
Staff: Dr. Karine
Hovhannisyan, Dr.Yuri Arustamyan, Dr. Viktor Makaryan, Dr. Gevork
Gevorkyan, Dr. Arsen Karapetyan, Dr. Norik Meliksetyan, Dr. Norik
Lambaryan, Dr. Arshak Isajanyan, William Saroyan, Artak Bakshyan, Tigran
Martirossyan, Araik Tamrazov, Grigor Margaryan
Address: 105 Terian
Street, Yerevan 375009, Armenia
Telephone: (374
1) 589 884, Fax: (374 1) 581 211, E-mail:
pogosian@seua.am
tribolab@seua.am
Research Projects & Activities:
o
Tribology of polymer-based composites
filled with local minerals
o
Treatment efficiency of minerals for
composites
o
The action of mineral fillers in the
friction and wear of polymers and lubricants
o
Self-lubricating mechanism and wear in
metal-polymer tribocontact
- The role of friction transfer
in wear of polymers
- Calculation of metal-polymer
tribocontact's characteristics
- Development of asbestos-free
friction materials
- Stick-slip effects in brake
applications
- Vibro- and squealstability
calculations of brakes
- Braking process modeling in
anti-lock system
- Additives and their action
mechanisms in lubricants
- The role of inorganic
thickeners in plastic lubricants creation
- Tribological peculiarities of
bentonite-based greases
- The action of nanoscale fillers
on tribological properties of composite materials
Research funding & opportunities:
- Projects Financed by State Budget
- U.S. Civilian Research and
Development Program (CRDF)
- Armenian Tribology Committee
International Co-operation:
Metal-Polymer Research Institute (Gomel,Belarus),Machine Science Research
Institute (Moscow,Russia),University of Michigan (Ann Arbor,USA),Imperial
College (London,UK), Iowa State University (Ames, USA), National Technical
University of Athens (Greece)
Selected Publications & Patents:
1.
Pogosian A.K.Friction and Wear of Filled Polymer
Materials.Moscow,1977.139p.
2.
Sysoev P.V., Bliznets M.M., Pogosian A.K. Antifriction Epoxide
Composites in Machine-Tool Building. Minsk, 1990. 231p.
3.
Pogosian A.K.,
Sysoev P.V., Meliksetyan N.G., Lambaryan N.A. Polymer-Based Friction
Composites. Minsk, 1992. 268p.
4.
Pogosian A.K.
Polymeric Self-Lubricating Materials.In "Tribology in USA and Former
Soviet Union". New York,
1994,pp.271-283.
5.
Pogosian A.K.
Principles of Tribology.
Yerevan-Athens, 1994-95. 296p.
6.
Pogosian A.K., Karapetyan A.N.,Hovhannisyan K.V. In "Wear of
Materials-89",Vol.2, ASME, New York,1989,pp.521-528.
7.
Pogosian A.K.,Arustamyan Yu.S.,Gevorkyan G.R.
Wear,Vol.167,1993,pp.85-86.
8.
Pogosian A.K., Demirchyan H.Z. Method of Vibroacoustic Diagnosis of
Machine-Tools (RF Patent, 02.07.1993).
9.
Pogosian A.K. Tribology International, Vol.31, N10,1998,pp.597-599.
10.
Pogosian A.K.,Hovhannisyan K.V., Isajanyan A.R. In "World Tribology
Congress", Vienna, 2001, pp.101-104.
11.
Pogosian A.K., Hovhannisyan K.V., Isajanyan A.R. Friction and Wear,
Vol. 23, N3, 2002, pp. 324-328.
12.
Pogosian A.K., Makaryan V.K., Martirosyan T.R. Device for obtaining
of nanosized powders (Arm. Patent #1250, 04.04.03).
13.
Pogosian A.K., Makaryan V.K., Martirosyan T.R. Nano-Scale
Fractionating Device of Mineral Powders (Arm. Patent #1343,
07.10.03).
14.
Pogosian A.K., Martirosyan T.R. In “14th Inter.
Colloquium, Tribology and Lubrication Engineering”, Esslingen, Vol.2,
2004, pp.729-731.
15.
Pogosian A.K., Saroyan W.V., Martirosyan T.R. Proc. of National
Academy of Sciences, Vol. LVII, N1, 2004, pp.40-44.
16.
Pogosian A.K., Martirosyan T.R. Reports of Rostov State University,
N1, 2004, pp.29-34. |
