Tutorial Session
Tutorial Session: Fundamentals of Wear and Wear Testing
Date: 16 April 2023
The aim of the tutorial is to teach about the fundamentals of wear as encountered in industrial applications, and to show best practice in wear testing to produce materials data which is representative and relevant to real world materials performance.
13:15 Introduction
13:25 Design and selection of wear tests – Peter Blau, WoM Historian, Blau Tribology Consulting, USA
14:05 Fundamentals of sliding wear – Philip Shipway – Please note this is a pre-recorded presentation
14:45 Fundamentals of wear by hard particles – Mark Gee, National Physical Lab (NPL), UK
15:25 Refreshment break (coffee)
15:40 Lubricated wear testing – George Plint
16:20 Tribocorrosion – Anna Igual, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
and Stephano Mischler, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
17:00 Panel discussion
17:30 End of Tutorial