State of the art Modular Traction Tribometer to be showcased at Lubricant Expo Europe

Paltro will display its Modular Traction Tribometer (MTT) at the 2025 Düsseldorf Lubricant Expo (stand 347). This ball-on-disc instrument precisely measures friction and wear in lubricated contacts under various rolling-sliding conditions and environmental settings. Compared to conventional traction machines, MTT offers value ‘beyond friction’ with an open architecture that supports interchangeable Microforce and Decaforce sensors, fretting drive, tackiness attachment, electrical contact resistance and surface 2D/3D imaging heads.

Ducom Paltro Modular Traction Tribometer (MTT). See it fisrt hand at stand 347

MTT includes a multi-axis robotic platform for precise positioning and force application. Independently operated rotary and traction drives enable rolling-sliding motion with slip ratio from 0 to 100% replicating conditions encountered in bearings, gears, railways and manufacturing operations. Crucial parameters like temperature, environment, speed, load, and specimen material or geometry can be adjusted to simulate real-world conditions. Fully automated testing enables ‘rapid characterisation’ and mapping of lubricant Traction and Stribeck characteristics using entrainment velocity and slide-to-roll ratio parameters only.

Come to Stand 347 at the Lubricant Expo to experience the modular traction tribometer first hand.

Beyond traction, MTT offers modules for soft matter contact characterisation with forces down to 20 mN, fretting behaviour with stroke down to 50 microns, tribocorrosion and surface imaging such as optical microscopy and 3D non-contact profilometry, thereby making MTT an indispensable tool for materials research and industrial applications.