Wear is one of the main reasons mechanical components and materials
become inoperable, rendering enormous costs to society over time.
Estimating wear allows engineers to predict the useful life of modern
mechanical elements, reduce the costs of inoperability, or obtain
optimal designs (i.e. selecting proper materials, shapes, and surface
finishing according to mechanical conditions and durability) to reduce
the impact of wear.Wear in Advanced Engineering Applications and
Materials presents recent computational and practical research studying
damage and wear in advanced engineering applications and materials. As
such, this book covers numerical formulations based on the finite
element method (FEM) -- and the boundary element method (BEM) -- as well
as theoretical and experimental research to predict the wear response or
life-limiting failure of engineering applications.