Education
Stribeck studied mechanical engineering in 1880 at the Technical University of Stuttgart in 1885 and worked as a designer in Königsberg.
Stribeck studied mechanical engineering in 1880 at the Technical University of Stuttgart in 1885 and worked as a designer in Königsberg.
In 1888 he became professor in Stuttgart, and 1890 Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt. 1893 he took a professorship at the Dresden Technical University. In 1896 he became head of the laboratory equipment of the university.
In 1898 was head of the Stribeck Physical metallurgy department of the Technical Institute and director of the center for scientific and technical studies in Neubabelsberg.
In 1902 he described the friction coefficient in lubricated bearings, now known as the Stribeck curve. From 1908 Stribeck worked for the Friedrich Krupp AG in Essen in 1919 at the Robert Bosch GmbH in Stuttgart.
Stribeck was honored for his services to the Wilhelm Exner Medal proposed. On Tim Allen"s sitcom Last Manitoba Standing, on American Broadcasting Company, Allen"s wife attempts to prove there are no ghosts at work by explaining how frictional contact mechanics caused a cold glass to slide spontaneously across a counter, finishing with the statement that "it"s just a simple application of Stribeck"s Curve".