F.J. Martínez

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an integral methodology to numerically model the wear phenomena by friction in a polymer-metal contact pair, showing the development of a numerical tool to implement a wear model in the commercial finite element code Abaqus.

TL;DR: In this paper, the tribological behavior of a thermoplastic polyurethanes (TPU) sliding against a non-polished steel counterface was studied as a function of load, velocity and temperature under dry conditions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report the process for obtaining a law of wear by friction that reproduces the behaviour of a contact pair between a guide shoe insert, made of TPU, and the corresponding guide, made by steel, in a lift guide shoe application after an initial identification of the TPU wear type as fatigue wear.

TL;DR: In this article, a finite element based methodology for obtaining pressure dependent friction laws from experimental tribometer tests on rubber-metal contacts is presented, where the area of contact and the contact pressure distribution in the test are analyzed.

TL;DR: In this article, a complete wear characterisation of a thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) sliding against steel is presented, where wear tests are performed using a long stroke tribometer under sliding reciprocating movement and dry conditions.