Skip to main content
Have a personal or library account? Click to login
A Micromechanically Grounded Methodology for Evaluating the Abrasivity of Particles in Accelerated Tribological Tests Cover

A Micromechanically Grounded Methodology for Evaluating the Abrasivity of Particles in Accelerated Tribological Tests

Open Access
|Aug 2026

References

  1. Shihab, T.A. Shlapak, L.S. Namer, N.S. Prysyazhnyuk, P.M. Ivanov, O.O. and Burda, M.J. (2021) “Increasing of durability of mechanical seals of oil and gas centrifugal pumps using tungsten-free cermet with Cu-Ni-Mn binder,” Journal of Physics: Conference Series, vol. 1741, no. 1, p. 012031, doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/1741/1/012031.
  2. Prysyazhnyuk, P. Bembenek, M. Drach, I. Korzhov, A. Romanyshyn, L. and Ropyak, L. (2024) “Restoration of the Impact Crusher Rotor Using FCAW with High-Manganese Steel Reinforced by Complex Carbides,” Management Systems in Production Engineering, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 294-302, doi: 10.2478/mspe-2024-0028.
  3. Ivanov, O. Prysyazhnyuk, P. Shlapak, L. Marynenko, S. Bodrova, L. and Kramar, H. (2022) “Researching of the structure and properties of FCAW hardfacing based on Fe-Ti-Mo-B-C welded under low current,” Procedia Structural Integrity, vol. 36, pp. 223-230, doi: 10.1016/j.prostr.2022.01.028.
  4. Kryl’ Ya.A. and Prysyazhnyuk P.M., (2013) “Structure formation and properties of NbC-Hadfield steel cermets,” Journal of Superhard Materials, vol. 35, no. 5, pp. 292-297, doi: 10.3103/S1063457613050043.
  5. Trembach B. et al., (2025) “Study of the Effects of Hardfacing Modes Carried out by FCAW-S with Exothermic Addition of MnO2-Al on Non-Metallic Inclusions, Grain Size, Microstructure and Mechanical Properties,” Eng, vol. 6, no. 6, p. 125, doi: 10.3390/eng6060125.
  6. Trembach B.O. et al., (2024) “Development of a Model of Transition Element Factor of Alloying Elements of Self-Shielding Flux-Cored Powder Wire and Optimization of its Core Filler Composition,” Materials Science, vol. 59, no. 6, pp. 733-740, doi: 10.1007/s11003-024-00834-2.
  7. Trembach, B. Starikov, V. Sukov, M.G. Zharikov, S. Kabatskyi, O. and Ivanova, Y. (2023) “Application of Mixture design in optimization of physical properties of slag during self-shielded flux-cored wire arc welding process,” in 2023 IEEE 5th Int. Conf. on Modern Electrical and Energy Syst. (MEES), Kremenchuk, Ukraine, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/MEES61502.2023.10402490.
  8. Trembach I.O. et al., (2025) “Application of a complete factorial experiment for optimization of the filling factor and charge density of self-shielding flux-cored powder wire,” Materials Science, vol. 60, no. 4, pp. 445-452, doi: 10.1007/s11003-025-00904-z.
  9. Lutsak, D. Prysyazhnyuk, P. Burda, M. and Aulin, V. (2016) “Development of a method and an apparatus for tribotechnical tests of materials under loose abrasive friction,” Eastern-European Journal of Enterprise Technologies, vol. 5, no. 7 (83), pp. 19-26, doi: 10.15587/1729-4061.2016.79913.
  10. Hamblin M.G. and Stachowiak, G.W. (1996) “Description of Abrasive Particle Shape and Its Relation to Two-Body Abrasive Wear,” Tribology Transactions, vol. 39, no. 4, pp. 803-810, doi: 10.1080/10402009608983598.
  11. Bembenek, M. Prysyazhnyuk, P. Shihab, T. Machnik, R. Ivanov, O. and Ropyak, L. (2022) “Microstructure and Wear Characterization of the Fe-Mo-B-C – Based Hardfacing Alloys Deposited by Flux-Cored Arc Welding,” Materials, vol. 15, no. 14, p. 5074, doi: 10.3390/ma15145074.
  12. Mulhearn T.O. and Samuels, L.E. (1962) “The abrasion of metals: A model of the process,” Wear, vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 478-498, doi: 10.1016/0043-1648(62)90064-9.
  13. Sedriks A.J. and Mulhearn, T.O. (1963) “Mechanics of cutting and rubbing in simulated abrasive processes,” Wear, vol. 6, no. 6, pp. 457-466, doi: 10.1016/0043-1648(63)90281-3.
  14. Lorensen W.E. and Cline, H.E. (1987) “Marching cubes: A high resolution 3D surface construction algorithm,” ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 163-169, doi: 10.1145/37402.37422.
  15. Kuhl F.P. and Giardina, C.R. (1982) “Elliptic Fourier features of a closed contour,” Computer Graphics and Image Processing, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 236-258, doi: 10.1016/0146-664X(82)90034-X.
  16. Otsu, N. (1979) “A Threshold Selection Method from Gray-Level Histograms,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 62-66, doi: 10.1109/TSMC.1979.4310076.
  17. Sternberg, S.R. (1983) “Biomedical Image Processing,” Computer, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 22-34, doi: 10.1109/MC.1983.1654163.
  18. Vincent L. and Soille, P. (1991) “Watersheds in digital spaces: an efficient algorithm based on immersion simulations,” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 583-598, doi: 10.1109/34.87344.
  19. Liebovitch L.S. and Toth, T. (1989) “A fast algorithm to determine fractal dimensions by box counting,” Physics Letters A, vol. 141, no. 8-9, pp. 386-390, doi: 10.1016/0375-9601(89)90854-2.
  20. van der Walt S. et al., (2014) “Scikit-image: image processing in Python,” Peer J, vol. 2, p. e453, doi: 10.7717/peerj.453.
  21. Virtanen P. et al., (2020) “SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python,” Nature Methods, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 261-272, doi: 10.1038/s41592-019-0686-2.
  22. De Pellegrin D.V. and Stachowiak, G.W. (2002) “Assessing the role of particle shape and scale in abrasion using ‘sharpness analysis’,” Wear, vol. 253, no. 9-10, pp. 1016-1025, doi: 10.1016/S0043-1648(02)00232-6.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mspe-2026-0036 | Journal eISSN: 2450-5781 | Journal ISSN: 2299-0461
Language: English
Page range: 399 - 418
Submitted on: Feb 1, 2026
Accepted on: Jul 1, 2026
Published on: Aug 6, 2026
Published by: STE Group sp. z.o.o.
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2026 Pavlo Prysyazhnyuk, Michał Bembenek, Andrii Kharlov, Liubomyr Romanyshyn, Dmytro Lutsak, published by STE Group sp. z.o.o.
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License.