Manufacturing Industry
Optical profiling quantifies wear: understanding wear and its underlying causes is critical to the manufacture and maintenance of structures, seals, drive trains, medical devices, and many other products.
Advanced Materials & Processes, July, 2005 by Zecchino, Mike
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Over the years, increasingly effective means have been developed for measuring surface topography and for exploiting this data to understand wear. Three-dimensional measurement techniques have led to the development of parameters that allow engineers to correlate wear to particular manufacturing processes and/or wear mechanisms.
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By further developing these techniques, engineers expect to be able to predict wear and thereby extend component life. [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] This article discusses wear mechanisms and conventional methods of quantifying wear, then presents optical profiling ...
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