Emission and Transport of Wear Particles

Dear Colleagues,

The problem of environmental pollution is becoming increasingly important in view of the growing ecological footprint of humankind. Friction contact, mainly through transport vehicle brakes, tire-on-road contact, wheel-on-rail contact, and electrical sliding contact, represents a significant source of toxic particulate matter pollution to the atmosphere, ground, and water. This source may be critically harmful in urban areas, especially in closed and semi-closed environments, such as traffic tunnels, stations, and stops.

The generation, emission, and transport of wear particles are complex processes involving various interrelated mechanical, thermal, electrical, and chemical phenomena. Their investigation requires a systematic approach based on the application of different techniques and principles of tribology, mechanics, heat and mass transfer, aerosol science, electromagnetism, chemistry, etc. Studies focusing on the reduction of wear particle emissions as well as those investigating the underlying mechanisms are undoubtedly of great practical and scientific interest as the implementation of the results obtained in these studies may potentially contribute to achieving global sustainable development goals.

This Special Issue aims to promote advances in wear particle generation and emissions. The scope includes topics related to the generation, emission, and transport of wear particles from different sources, including the tribological aspects of particle formation, quantitative and qualitative assessments of particle emissions, and chemicophysical particle characterisation using various measurement techniques and instrumentation. Experimental, computational, and mixed studies at varied scales are appropriate for this Special Issue.

Dr. Oleksii Nosko
Dr. Yezhe Lyu
Dr. Hiroyuki Hagino
Dr. Mara Leonardi
Guest Editors

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• wear mechanism
• wear debris
• airborne wear particles
• wear particle transport
• wear particle characterisation