Wear 

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the concept of nanocomposite coatings with high hardness and low elastic modulus, which can exhibit improved toughness, and are therefore better suited for optimising the wear resistance of real industrial substrate materials (i.e., steels and light alloys, with similarly low moduli).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discussed some aspects of the fluid flow conditions which may lead to erosion and then analyzed the mechanism of material removal for ductile and brittle materials for both types of materials.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors derived an expression for the energy needed to remove a unit volume of material from the body surface and described the plastic-elastic behaviour of the substance.

TL;DR: In this article, a simple formulation of flash temperature theory is given, which reduces the mathematical complexities and instead emphasises the relevant physical considerations, and the use of the theory is illustrated by some new experimental results on the breakdown of Perspex and the wear of steels.

TL;DR: The third-body approach highlights the many features which are common to different types of materials in different kinds of rubbing contacts, and suggests that a picture which is globally coherent from a mechanical point of view, in that it obeys as a first step the laws of equilibrium and continuity, can be presented.