Zhong-Rong Zhou

Zhong-Rong Zhou was born in Zhejiang, China, in July 1965. He obtained his B.E. degree of mechanical engineering from Southwest Jiaotong University (SWJTU) in 1986, his M.E. and Ph.D. degrees of materials engineering from Ecole Centrale de Lyon (France) in 1988 and 1992, respectively. He then pursued postdoctoral research (1993–1995) at the Mechinical Engineering Department at the Laval University, Canada. He was an Invited Professor at Ecole Centrale de Lyon (1995–1997). In 1997, he returned to China to establish the Tribology Research Instititue and he was appointed as a Professor of mechanical engineering. Now he is the Director of the School of Mechanical Engineering of SWJTU. Since 1987, Zhou focused his research on tribology and surface engineering. More than 80 scientific papers on fretting wear and fretting fatigue, biotribology, rolling contact, and friction-induced noise have been published in various international journals, and his work has been frequently cited in more than 30 international journals. In addition, he has organized two international conferences in China, and his international activities go well beyond the usual participation. He has established a lot of projects on international collaboration, particularly with France and Japan, and initiated exchanges of students and researchers.

Biography Updated on 22 April 2008

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Friction and wear behavior of human teeth under various wear conditions
    Tribology International, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 278–284, 2007
  2. Study of in vitro wear of human tooth enamel
    Tribology Letters, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 181–189, 2007
  3. Reciprocating sliding behaviour of human skin in vivo at lower number of cycles
    Tribology Letters, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 165–170, 2006
  4. Effect of age on the friction and wear behaviors of human teeth
    Tribology International, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 266–273, 2006
  5. Radial fretting behaviours of dental ceramics
    Tribology International, vol. 39, no. 10, pp. 1255–1261, 2006
  6. Progress in fretting maps
    Tribology International, vol. 39, no. 10, pp. 1068–1073, 2006
  7. Friction and wear behavior of dental feldspathic porcelain
    Wear, vol. 261, no. 5-6, pp. 611–621, 2006
  8. In situ synthesis of magnetic particles on the surface of tetra-needle like ZnO whisker
    Journal of Crystal Growth, vol. 287, no. 1, pp. 54–57, 2006
  9. Oral tribology
    Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part J: Journal of Engineering Tribology, vol. 220, no. 8, pp. 739–754, 2006
  10. Three-dimensional train–track model for study of rail corrugation
    Journal of Sound and Vibration, vol. 293, no. 3-5, pp. 830–855, 2006
  11. Comparison of nano-indentation hardness to microhardness
    Surface and Coatings Technology, vol. 195, no. 2-3, pp. 264–271, 2005
  12. Experimental verification of the strain-gradient plasticity model for indentation
    Journal of Materials Research, vol. 20, no. 11, pp. 3150–3156, 2005
  13. Fretting behavior of cortical bone against titanium and its alloy
    Wear, vol. 259, no. 7-12, pp. 910–918, 2005
  14. Experimental observation of the initiation process of friction-induced vibration under reciprocating sliding conditions
    Wear, vol. 259, no. 1-6, pp. 277–281, 2005
  15. Radial fretting behaviours of dental feldspathic ceramics against different counterbodies
    Wear, vol. 259, no. 7-12, pp. 996–1004, 2005
  16. An investigation of friction characteristic of steels under rolling–sliding condition
    Wear, vol. 259, no. 1-6, pp. 439–444, 2005
  17. The role of phase transition in the fretting behavior of NiTi shape memory alloy
    Wear, vol. 259, no. 1-6, pp. 309–318, 2005
  18. Fretting wear behavior of superelastic nickel titanium shape memory alloy
    Tribology Letters, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 463–475, 2005
  19. Reciprocating sliding wear behavior of laser-clad small amplitude MoNiSi/NiSi metal silicide composite coatings
    Applied Surface Science, vol. 240, no. 1-4, pp. 432–440, 2005
  20. Fretting wear behavior of PTFE-based bonded solid lubrication coatings
    Thin Solid Films, vol. 457, no. 2, pp. 320–325, 2004
  21. Adhesion experiment on a wheel/rail system and its numerical analysis
    Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part J: Journal of Engineering Tribology, vol. 218, no. 4, pp. 293–304, 2004
  22. Surface treatment by high current pulsed electron beam
    Surface and Coatings Technology, vol. 163-164, pp. 620–624, 2003
  23. Experimental investigation into squeal under reciprocating sliding
    Tribology International, vol. 36, no. 12, pp. 961–971, 2003
  24. On the friction and wear behaviour of human tooth enamel and dentin*1
    Wear, vol. 255, no. 7-12, pp. 967–974, 2003
  25. An experimental study of rail corrugation*1
    Wear, vol. 255, no. 7-12, pp. 1121–1126, 2003
  26. Dual-motion fretting wear behaviour of 7075 aluminium alloy
    Wear, vol. 255, no. 1-6, pp. 269–275, 2003
  27. An investigation on fretting wear life of bonded MoS2 solid lubricant coatings in complex conditions
    Wear, vol. 255, no. 1-6, pp. 253–258, 2003
  28. Correlation of a negative friction–velocity slope with squeal generation under reciprocating sliding conditions
    Wear, vol. 255, no. 1-6, pp. 376–384, 2003
  29. Effect of tangential force on wear behaviour of steels in reciprocating rolling and rolling?sliding contact
    Wear, vol. 250, no. 1-12, pp. 357–361, 2001
  30. Radial fretting fatigue damage of surface coatings
    Wear, vol. 250, no. 1-12, pp. 650–657, 2001
  31. Study on transition between fretting and reciprocating sliding wear
    Wear, vol. 250, no. 1-12, pp. 665–672, 2001
  32. Prediction of the fretting fatigue resistance of various surface-modification layers on 1045 steel: the role of fretting maps
    Tribology International, vol. 34, no. 8, pp. 569–575, 2001
  33. Effect of displacement amplitude in oil-lubricated fretting
    Wear, vol. 239, no. 2, pp. 237–243, 2000
  34. Properties of titanium oxide biomaterials synthesized by titanium plasma immersion ion implantation and reactive ion oxidation
    Thin Solid Films, vol. 377-378, no. 1-2, pp. 573–577, 2000
  35. An investigation of fretting behaviour of several metallic materials under grease lubrication
    Tribology International, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 69–74, 2000
  36. A comparative study on fretting wear-resistant properties of ion-plated TiN and magnetron-sputtered MoS2 coatings
    Wear, vol. 224, no. 2, pp. 211–215, 1999
  37. Lubrication in fretting?a review
    Wear, vol. 225-229, pp. 962–967, 1999
  38. Lubrication by thin polystyrene coating in fretting
    Wear, vol. 231, no. 2, pp. 179–184, 1999
  39. An investigation of the fretting wear of two aluminium alloys
    Tribology International, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 1–7, 1997
  40. Wear maps of Si3N4 ceramic cutting tool
    Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, vol. 6, no. 5, pp. 671–675, 1997
  41. Nucleation and early growth of tribologically transformed structure (TTS) induced by fretting
    Wear, vol. 212, no. 1, pp. 50–58, 1997
  42. Effect of chromic acid anodizing treatment on fretting behaviour during fretting tests on pre-stressed specimens
    Thin Solid Films, vol. 298, no. 1-2, pp. 170–176, 1997
  43. Fretting cracking behaviour on pre-stressed aluminium alloy specimens
    Tribology International, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 215–223, 1997
  44. Fundamental investigations of electrical conductor fretting fatigue
    Tribology International, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 221–232, 1996
  45. Effect of lubricant in electrical conductor fretting fatigue
    Wear, vol. 189, no. 1-2, pp. 51–57, 1995
  46. Fretting fatigue in electrical transmission lines
    Wear, vol. 173, no. 1-2, pp. 179–188, 1994
  47. FRETTING PATTERNS IN A CONDUCTOR?CLAMP CONTACT ZONE
    Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures, vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 661–669, 1994
  48. Effect of external loading on wear maps of aluminium alloys
    Wear, vol. 162-164, pp. 619–623, 1993