Wear is a process of gradual removal of a material from surfaces of solids subject to contact
and sliding. Damages of contact surfaces are results of wear. They can have various …

A good maintenance strategy is essential to keep complex engineering systems safe.
Historically, maintenance has evolved from post-failure repair to preventive maintenance to …

This review reports the recent progress in predicting the performance and long-term
durability of electrical connectors in the automotive industry. The review features a short …

Wear prediction on the components of a mechanical system without considering the system
as a whole will, in most cases, lead to inaccurate predictions. This is because the wear is …

The article presents a fully coupled 3D thermomechanical model of a railway vehicle disc
brake for calculations of temperature, stress, contact pressure and wear distributions. Five …

In this paper, numerical integration schemes and parallel computation methodologies for
wear occurring in bodies that experience oscillatory contact are proposed. The …

Study of wear in complex micro-mechanical components is often accomplished
experimentally using a pin-on-disc and twin-disc tribometer. The present paper proposes an …

This paper presents wear prediction of friction material in a disc brake assembly. A new and
unworn pair of brake pads is tested under different durations of brake application to …

Fretting is defined as a small displacement oscillatory motion between two solids in contact.
Depending on the loading conditions (displacement amplitude, normal force, etc.) fretting …

A very efficient, incremental implementation of Archard's wear model on the global scale for
pin wear and disc wear in a pin-on-disc tribometer is presented. The results from the model …