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How to analyse sliding wear with Archard's principle

Dear Sir,
I'm doing a masters research on the effect of different sliding speeds on advanced polymer coatings.

From my experiments, I can determine the values of applied load (w), hardness (h), volume of wear debris (q) and sliding length (l) and can easily calculate for k (using the archards equation q = kwl/h)

How can the archard equation be used in analysing my test results/ determining the wear rate of the polymer coating?

warm regards

Onyebuchi Uchegbu
Masters student - London, United Kingdom
June 30, 2009

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