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General Background
Elastomers are long hydrocarbon loose chain polymers that are connected to each other by chemical bonds, resulting in highly elastic behaviour above...
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Effect of the Three-Body Abrasion
To further understand the project in hand and for aid in completion, numerous outcomes and results of previously conducted experiment by...
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Development of an Experimental Model
Predicting the wear behaviour of materials by considering the effect of operating parameters, mechanical, and physical properties is one of the most...
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Effect of the Applied Load
As stated in Chap. 2 , different parameters have effect on the caused wear and friction in the system, when...
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Materials and Methodology
The purpose of this chapter is to describe the materials, methods, and instruments used to run the experiments and analysis of the obtained results....
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Statistical Analysis
Catastrophic failure can happen in systems, due to the weakening of the main structure of the component. The wear and friction are important output...
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Summary
The reported investigations on the wear and friction of the materials (metals, polymers, and composites) show that the applied load, the abrasive...
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Wear of Rubber Material in Conveyor Belt System
Conveyor belt is one of the primary systems used in mining and industries to transport bulk materials in continuous/semi-continuous mode (Molnar et...
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Effect of the Abrasive Particle Size
Abrasive wear is one of the most common and destructive type of failure (Zum Gahr K.H. Zum Gahr, Microstructure and Wear of Materials. (Elsevier,...
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Introduction
A special class of amorphous and elastic polymers composed of long, chain-like cross-linked molecules with high elastic memory, tensile strength,...
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The Effect of the Viscosity and the Contact Angle on the Pull-Off Strength of Epoxy Resin Modified with Waste Granite Powders
It is common practice to modify an epoxy resin coating with additives and fillers. For the sake of sustainable development, in this research, waste...
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Open Assembly Time of Water-Borne Polyvinyl Acetate (PVAc) Wood Adhesives Affected by Various Factors
Open assembly time is one of the most important processing parameters of water-borne polyvinyl acetate (PVAc) dispersion adhesives. Exceeding the...
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Structural Bonding of Thin-Walled Magnesium Die Cast Components
The demand for lighter, more fuel efficient and environment friendly vehicles has made the automotive manufacturer and suppliers to apply new...
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The Behaviour of CFRP Adhesive Joints Under Different Loading Rates
In recent years there has been an increasing interest in applying adhesive bonding to structural components of the vehicles manufactured by the...
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Step by Step Method (Ipsen’s Method)
This chapter describes in detail the step-by-step method of dimensional analysis and provides step by step examples of its application. This method...
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Introduction
This chapter provides information to understand the importance of dimensional analysis in the solution of engineering problems, understand why all...
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Non-dimensionalization of Differential Equations
The definition of dimensionless variables can be usually obtained applying different methods of dimensional analysis; however, another way is...
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Units, Dimensions and Dimensional Homogeneity
The basic concepts of dimensional analysis are described in this chapter. Variables are dissected in terms of units and dimensions, ending with the...
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Wind and Water Tunnel Equipment
The wind tunnel facility is the most widely used pipe-type device for testing aerodynamics and the development of aircraft. Through a tubular device,...
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Experimental Fluid Mechanics
Experimental fluid mechanics, theoretical fluid mechanics, and computational fluid mechanics constitute the three branches of fluid mechanics....