During the second part of the twentieth century, many efforts have been done to model wear. Particularly, Archard proposes in 1953 [1] one of the first wear law, which is often written on the following form:
with dW/dt the mass of detached particles from the rubbing materials per unit time, P the applied pressure, V the sliding speed and K the “wear rate”.
Volume Subject Area:
Wear of and Fatigue of Materials
Topics:
Wear, Particulate matter, Pressure
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