Tribology of Elastomers

This book highlights the tribological behavior of elastomers by  investigating the effect of operating variables such as, the applied  load and the abrasive particle size, and the materials’ mechanical  properties such as, tensile strength, elongation at break, hardness, and  tear strength by the experimental, statistical and analytical methods.  It is found that the wear mechanism is mostly friction wear, which is  mixed with fatigue wear and abrading under higher applied loads or  larger abrasives. The statistical method shows that the abrasive  particle size has the highest contribution followed by the applied load  on the wear process. Wear equation is developed to predict the wear rate  considering the trends of the input variables.