Fractal geometry model for wear prediction

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-15-1993

Abstract

Fractal characterization of surface topography is applied to the study of contact mechanics and wear processes. The structure function method is used to find the fractal dimension D and the topothesy L. We develop a fractal geometry model, which predicts the wear rate in terms of these two fractal parameters for wear prediction. Using this model we show that the wear rate Vr and the true contact area Ar have the relationship VrαArm(D), where m(D) is a function of D and has a value between 0.5 and 1. We next study the optimum (i.e. the lowest wear rate) fractal dimension in a wear process. It is found that the optimum fractal dimension is affected by the contact area, material properties and scale amplitude. Experimental results of wear testing show good agreement with the predictions based on the model. © 1993.

Identifier

0027701488 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Wear

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1016/0043-1648(93)90345-M

ISSN

00431648

First Page

1

Last Page

14

Issue

1

Volume

170

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