Modeling and Characterization of Wear
A special issue of Lubricants (ISSN 2075-4442).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2024 | Viewed by 634
Special Issue Editors
Interests: friction and wear modelling; boundary lubrication; tribology in metal forming; geotribology; coatings; stick–slip interfaces
Interests: tribology; rheology; EHL lubrication; rolling element bearing; seals; failure analysis; mechanical engineering design; grease
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Wear on materials predominantly contributes to the degradation and failure of mechanical systems. The lack of understanding of wear is explicable due to the challenges in simulating and characterizing wear phenomena effectively for different tribological conditions, especially given the synergistic and transient nature of wear. The limitations range from analysis of worn specimens to developing lab-scale experiments and multiscale wear models, replicating tribogical systems.
Analyzing and modelling wear requires the characterization of worn specimens. This necessitates quantifying wear using instrumented methods like microscopy and spectroscopy.
Because of the multiscale and multiphysical nature of wear, wear models may be mesh- or particle-based, (semi-) analytical or probabilistic, and/or employ hybrid methods. It is important that wear models have a physical basis and are validated experimentally.
The scope of this Special Issue will include research work on experimental wear characterization and numerical wear models. The research approach taken can employ related studies on contact mechanics, surface engineering, as well as frictional and lubrication. Of interest are numerical and experimental methods to simulate and analyze complex wear phenomena such as three-body abrasive wear, surface fatigue, adhesive wear, fretting, tribochemical wear, erosion, and lubricant wear.
Dr. Tanmaya Mishra
Dr. Norbert Bader
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- surface degradation
- wear modelling
- wear analysis
- abrasion
- adhesive wear
- sliding wear
- fatigue
- tribo-corrosion
- fretting
- molecular dynamics
