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Kenneth Holmberg VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland OECD IRG 26th Meeting, Lyon, France, 5-6.10.2006 BACKGROUND Important role of tribology in our society: safety, reliability, energy, new products Tribology develops and expands: number of meetings, conferences, articles submitted, published New and more generic and precise theories: needs to be confirmed empirically How good is our reported experimental data? BACKGROUND Experience from writing a tribology articles and books Many articles are today published that are never or seldom referred to - what is their contribution to our general knowledge? In tribology we are presenting scatters of experimental results that would not be acceptable in other fields of natural science! Two basic problems: Specifying experimental conditions Reporting wear 1. SPECIFYING EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS 25th IRG OECD meeting in Uppsala, June 2005, decided to recommend a short list of parameters with which a tribological contact can be described BASIC TRIBOEMPIRIC PARAMETERS Energy input: speed, load Materials for body 1 and 2: Physical / chemical / metallurgical specification H, E, Ra Coating: h, H, E + phys/chem/met specification Third body: Lubricant: η + chemical composition Contaminants: material, size, H Environment: Humidity, temperature IRG OECD RECOMMENDATION OF MINIMUM SPECIFICATIONS FOR EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS IN TRIBOLOGY ARTICLES Description of test device - a brief description of the test system or in case of commercially available device, its code. Geometry For both surfaces in contact: - macrogeometry: given typically as radius or diameter of a curved surface, or contact spot dimensions for flat contacts, so that stresses can be determined from loads, - microgeometry: surface roughness, given as appropriate for the application, but also as Ra-value for comparison. Energy input - load (or stress), - speed. Materials For both surfaces in contact: - material specification: metallurgical, physical or chemical; includin