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SUBMITTER: Aghababaei R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5544287 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Aghababaei Ramin R Warner Derek H DH Molinari Jean-François JF
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20170710 30
Every contacting surface inevitably experiences wear. Predicting the exact amount of material loss due to wear relies on empirical data and cannot be obtained from any physical model. Here, we analyze and quantify wear at the most fundamental level, i.e., wear debris particles. Our simulations show that the asperity junction size dictates the debris volume, revealing the origins of the long-standing hypothesized correlation between the wear volume and the real contact area. No correlation, howev ...[more]