“…Beside their self-lubricating properties, PJBs are also maintenance-free throughout their entire lifespan of up to 10,000 operating hours (Durak, 2003; Veloff et al , 2006). These benefits are the reasons why several topics related to PJBs have been studied and discussed in scientific publications not only in the academic community, but also by industry (Scheichl et al , 2015; Baidya et al , 2019; Boubendir et al , 2011; Sakim et al , 2019; Boubendir et al , 2019). Commonly examined areas of interest include the investigation and improvement of PJB performance or the development of methods and tribometers to characterize them (Eder et al , 2018; Allmaier et al , 2013; Saraf and Kothavale, 2018).…”