Braham Prakash

About

Braham Prakash obtained his M.Tech (Mechanical Engineering) and PhD (Tribology) degrees from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India. He worked in industry for about five years and then took up a faculty position at Indian Institute of Delhi in India and worked there up to 2002. He is presently a Professor and Head of Tribolab at the Division of Machine Elements of Luleå University of Technology in Sweden since January 2002. He was a Visiting Researcher Tokyo Institute of Technology (1985) and Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) at Chiba Institute of Technology (1998-2000). He has over 37 years of R&D experience both in academia and industry in the field of tribology. His research & teaching activities pertain to high temperature tribology; tribology of materials & lubricants; solid lubricants/self-lubricating coatings; boundary lubrication; tribology of machine components (bearings, gears and seals); analysis of wear problems; and tribotesting.

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Education

• Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

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Publications (42)

• Tribological Evaluation of Different Lubricant Formulations for Hot Forming of Aluminum
  Tribology Transactions 2026 DOI: 10.1080/10402004.2026.2658594
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• The effect of work hardening on bendability of roll levelled martensitic wear resistant steel
  2026 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.7364228
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• Molecular design of zwitterionic lignin gels for low-temperature wear protection in greases
  Tribology International 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.triboint.2026.111889
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• Role of various influencing parameters on high temperature fretting behaviour of different tribopairs in liquid lead
  Nuclear Materials and Energy 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.nme.2024.101699
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• Micropitting performance of glycerol-based lubricants under rolling-sliding contact conditions
  Tribology International 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.triboint.2021.107348
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• Tribological performance of iron- and nickel-base self-lubricating claddings containing metal sulfides at high temperature
  Friction 2022 DOI: 10.1007/s40544-021-0578-1
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• High temperature tribological behaviour of PVD coated tool steel and aluminium under dry and lubricated conditions
  Friction 2021 DOI: 10.1007/s40544-020-0435-7
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• High temperature tribology of TiAlN PVD coating sliding against 316L stainless steel and carbide-free bainitic steel
  Tribology International 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.triboint.2020.106847
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• Influence of lubrication, tool steel composition, and topography on the high temperature tribological behaviour of aluminium
  Friction 2021 DOI: 10.1007/s40544-020-0371-6
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• Dry sliding wear of nanostructured carbide-free bainitic steels – Effect of oxidation-dominated wear
  Wear 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.wear.2020.203317
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