TY - JOUR A1 - Reichelt, Manuel A1 - Cappella, Brunero T1 - Comparative analysis of error sources in the determination of wear volumes of oscillating ball-on-plane tests JF - Frontiers in Material Engineering N2 - The accurate determination of wear volumes is a prerequisite for the study of numerous tribological phenomena. Wear volumes can be measured with different techniques or else be calculated starting from some quantities measured from the wear scar. Advantages and drawbacks of the measuring techniques are shown by means of wear scars and calottes resulting from ball-on-plane tests with 100Cr6 specimens. When measuring wear volumes, white light interferometry results to be one of the most suitable techniques. When wear volumes are calculated, errors result mainly from two sources: (1) the arbitrary choice of one or few line profiles for the determination of the width and of the planimetric wear, and (2) approximations in the calculation, which are even necessary when values of the wear volumes of the single tribological partners and not only the total volume are of interest. The effect of both error sources on the accuracy in the determination of wear volumes is characterized and elucidated by examples. It is found that errors due to approximations are negligible when compared to errors due to the arbitrary choice of one line profile. KW - Error sources analysis KW - White light interferometry KW - Statistical analysis KW - AFM KW - Wear KW - Oscillating ball-on-disc test PY - 2020 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-508407 DO - https://doi.org/10.3389/fmech.2020.00025 VL - 6 SP - Article 25 AN - OPUS4-50840 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wäsche, Rolf A1 - Hartelt, Manfred A1 - Cappella, Brunero T1 - The use of AFM for high resolution imaging of macroscopic wear scars JF - Wear N2 - In this article we demonstrate the use of atomic force microscopy (AFM) measurements for the study of macroscopic wear scars. By stitching AFM images acquired over the wear scar, the detailed structure of the scar can be characterized even when the scar is much wider than the typical maximum scan range of the AFM (50–100 µm). The results obtained by AFM are compared with those yielded by white light interferometry (WLI). The comparison validates the WLI measurements; at the same time, it shows decisive differences in the resolutions of these two methods. As a consequence, AFM measurements are necessary whenever a precise characterization of the structure of the scar is required. However, since stitching of AFM images is rather time-consuming, white light interferometry is recommended as a faster method whenever experiments are aimed at just a gross characterization of the scar and the measurement of mean quantities (e.g. the wear volume). KW - Wear scar KW - Imaging KW - Roughness KW - Wear volume KW - Atomic force microscopy KW - White light interferometry PY - 2014 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wear.2013.11.009 SN - 0043-1648 VL - 309 IS - 1-2 SP - 120 EP - 125 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-30289 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -