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Article Title
On the risks associated with wear quantification using profilometers equipped with skid tracers
Keywords
profilometer, wear track volume, skidless profilometer, wear measurement, skidless tracer, skid tracer
Abstract
In this study a wear track was generated on aluminium by rubbing it against a hard steel ball. The generated wear track has a typical depth of 50 µm and exhibits marked ridges on its borders. The cross section profiles were measured using two different stylus profilometers equipped either with skidless or skid probes and compared to a skidless reference instrument. It was found that the use of a skid probe can introduce significant distortion of the measured wear track profiles and thus errors in wear quantification. The reason for that is attributed to the presence of the ridges that, by elevating the skid, alter artificially the reference height used for profile measurement.
Publisher
Tsinghua University Press
Recommended Citation
M. BELLANTONIO. On the risks associated with wear quantification using profilometers equipped with skid tracers. Friction 2016, 4(1): 84-88.