TY - JOUR A1 - Woydt, Mathias A1 - Wäsche, Rolf T1 - The history of the Stribeck curve and ball bearing steels: The role of Adolf Martens JF - Wear N2 - The historical development on the discoveries of lubrication regimes for lubricated sliding contacts has been reviewed from the very beginning. It was found that the functional relationship between the coefficient of friction and the product of sliding speed and viscosity divided by the normal load well known as the Stribeck curve has been experimentally explored much earlier by Adolf Martens in 1888 long before Richard Stribeck did his pioneering measurements in 1902. However, basic work in this field of experimental hydrodynamics was done and results were published even earlier than that back in 1854 by Gustave A. Hirn, in 1879 by Robert H. Thurston and in 1883 by Beauchamp Tower. KW - Stribeck curve KW - Martens KW - Stribeck KW - Thurston KW - Gümbel KW - Hirn PY - 2010 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wear.2010.02.015 SN - 0043-1648 VL - 268 IS - 11-12 SP - 1542 EP - 1546 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-21180 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -