Application of 3D Scanners and Digital Methods in Wear Assessment
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Mechanical Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2022) | Viewed by 4586
Special Issue Editors
Interests: tribology; robotics; mechanics of machines; system dynamics; 3D scanning
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Interests: tribology; robotics; mechanism theory; multibody dynamics; grasping and manipulation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Wear assessment is an issue of great significance in mechanics and biomechanics as it is fundamental in the study of resistance and useful life of components and validation of wear models, the aim of it being to enhance the design and tribological performance. In recent decades, the application of 3D scanners and digital methods in tribology has become more and more useful and powerful since optical digitization and digital inspection allow us to overcome some disadvantages related to the methods using traditional instruments and provide a complete scenario of the wear progress and distribution over the entire surface under study.
In this Special Issue, we will provide a broad range of research from experimental results to theoretical approaches focused on the use of 3D scanners and digital methods for wear assessment. We are pleased to invite researchers who are specialized in this field and willing to contribute their work. New approaches, instruments and techniques based on 3D optical scanners and digitizers to quantify the material loss and deepen the investigation of wear effects and mechanisms are particularly welcome in this Special Issue.
Dr. Silvia Logozzo
Prof. Maria Cristina Valigi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- digital tribology
- 3D optical wear measurement
- 3D optical inspection and diagnostics
- 3D optical scanners
- wear maps
- wear models
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