MONITORING OF DRY SLIDING WEAR USING FRACTAL ANALYSIS

Jianbo Zhang, Paul Regtien, Maarten Korsten
Abstract:
Reliable online monitoring of wear remains a challenge to tribology research as well as to the industry. This paper presents a new method for monitoring of dry sliding wear using digital imaging and fractal analysis. Fractal values, namely fractal dimension and intercept, computed from the power spectrum of the images of a wearing surface, are adopted as indicators of the dynamic wear process. Experimental results show that progressive changes of fractal values might reveal the wear status of the surface.
Keywords:
wear, fractal analysis
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Event details
IMEKO TC:
TC10
Event name:
TC10 Conference 2005
Title:

10th IMEKO TC10 Conference on Technical Diagnostics

Place:
Budapest, HUNGARY
Time:
09 June 2005 - 10 June 2005