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FMF3017 Post Graduate School in Tribology 9.0 credits

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Information for Spring 2026 Start 13 Jan 2026 programme students

Course location

KTH Campus

Duration
13 Jan 2026 - 1 Jun 2026
Periods

Spring 2026: P4 (4.5 hp), P3 (4.5 hp)

Pace of study

33%

Application code

10731

Form of study

Normal Daytime

Language of instruction

English

Course memo
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Course syllabus as PDF

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Course syllabus FMF3017 (Spring 2019–)
Headings with content from the Course syllabus FMF3017 (Spring 2019–) are denoted with an asterisk ( )

Content and learning outcomes

Course contents

The course has five parts of three credits each. The main supervisor together with the doctoral student chooses up to three of the sub-moments:

  • Advanced lubricant theory
  • Surface topography and surface layers
  • Contact mechanics
  • Wear, modelling, simulation and experimental
  • Friction modelling, simulation and experimental

Intended learning outcomes

After passing the course, the doctoral student must know three of the following five elements (the main supervisor together with the doctoral student chooses the elements), where each element corresponds to 3 credits:

  • Lubricant theory at an advanced level
  • Surface topography and surface layers in theory and practice at advanced level
  • Contact mechanics analytically and numerically at advanced level
  • Abrasion modelling, simulation and experimental at advanced level
  • Friction modelling, simulation and experimental at advanced level

Literature and preparations

Specific prerequisites

Admitted to the postgraduate course Machine Design at KTH

Literature

You can find information about course literature either in the course memo for the course offering or in the course room in Canvas.

Examination and completion

Grading scale

P, F

Examination

  • INL1 - Assignment, 9.0 credits, grading scale: P, F

Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.

The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.

If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.

Examiner

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Ethical approach

  • All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
  • In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
  • In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.

Further information

Course room in Canvas

Registered students find further information about the implementation of the course in the course room in Canvas. A link to the course room can be found under the tab Studies in the Personal menu at the start of the course.

Offered by

ITM/Machine Design

Education cycle

Third cycle

Postgraduate course

Postgraduate courses at ITM/Machine Design