Demonstrator for a low-friction slide bearing

This deliverable involves the design fabrication and testing of a slide bearing or pump part with laserstructured surface on inorganic material with bark buglike design featuring fast transport of lubricating fluids which results in a friction coefficient reduced by more than 90 compared to that of a plain surface of the same material The design will be defined according to the best results of D44 D42 and fabrication will be performed with using the highrepetition rate ultrashort laser system on the most suited material identified in D44 and D42 The functional performance of the demonstrator in terms of fluid transport will be tested and compared to stateoftheart technology