Abstract
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.
Highlights
In recent years, the field of tribology has experienced significant developments in both scope and depth [1]
A case study is carried out in this paper, and the entire process of building and using a tribo-informatics database, function database, and application software is introduced in detail
Since the first recognition of friction, the study of tribology has gone through four processes to date: empirical science based on phenomena, theoretical science based on simplified models, computational science based on computational tools, and information science based on big data (Fig. 2)
Summary
The field of tribology has experienced significant developments in both scope and depth [1]. Outputting the results, along with other approaches, such technologies offer a large amount of data and suggestions for researchers in various fields, including health information technology [11], supply chain information technology [12], and educational information technology [13] With these information technologies, the information in various fields can be summarized and sorted out, which reduces the information entropy of the system and improves the efficiency of information utilization. A framework of tribo-informatics is established based on a combination of information technology and tribology This framework reduces the information entropy in tribology research and improves the research efficiency by facilitating the circulation of tribology information. A case study is carried out in this paper, and the entire process of building and using a tribo-informatics database, function database, and application software is introduced in detail
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