In a rare move, Amazon.com is increasing friction in one aspect of its customer experience. The company will add a small fee for some returns at UPS stores. This hardly represents a tectonic shift at ...

Since his postdoctoral days at MIT, Hang Yu, associate professor of materials science and engineering, has been wrestling ...

The 6700-M Mini Loop is a compact bench system designed for precise measurement of friction pressure in slick water ...

This latest addition to the 6700 Friction Flow Loop product line delivers advanced testing capabilities in a portable, space-saving design.

A research team led by CU Boulder has designed a new kind of synthetic “skin” as slippery as the scales of a snake. The research, published recently in the American Chemical Society journal Applied ...

If you want to know how to make a sneaker with better traction, just ask a snake. That's the theory driving new research by an expert who is studying snake skin to help engineers improve the design of ...

Friction is hard to predict and control, especially since surfaces that come in contact are rarely perfectly flat. New experiments demonstrate that the amount of friction between two silicon surfaces, ...

Friction plays a key role in how ruptures unzip faults in the Earth’s crust and release waves that cause destructive shaking. Yet dynamic friction evolution is one of the biggest uncertainties in ...

Hartlepool-based automotive manufacturer TMD Friction has expanded its UK engineering excellence department to support further growth of the business. The global manufacturer of brake pads created the ...

If you want to know how to make a sneaker with better traction in the rain, just ask a snake. That’s the theory driving the research of Hisham Abdel-Aal, PhD, an associate teaching professor from ...