Abstract
The Laboratório de Fenômenos de Superfície of the Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo (LFS-EPUSP) and the Materials Processing Laboratory (MSMP) of the Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Arts et Métiers (ENSAM) have several individual initiatives towards the study of tribology, as well as joint initiatives since 2015, many of which dedicated to applications in the automotive industr…