Study on the Influence of the Ball Material on Abrasive Particles’ Dynamics in Ball-Cratering Thin Coatings Wear Tests

Micro-abrasion remains a test configuration hugely used, mainly for thin coatings. Several studies have been carried out investigating the parameters around this configuration. Recently, a new study was launched studying the behavior of different ball materials in abrasive particles’ dynamics in the contact area. This study intends to extend that study, investigating new ball materials never used so far in this test configuration. Thus, commercial balls of American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) 52100 steel, Stainless Steel (SS) (AISI) 304 steel and Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) were used under different test conditions and abrasive particles, using always the same coating for reference. Craters generated on the coated samples’ surface and tracks on the balls’ surface were carefully observed by Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and 3D microscopy in order to understand the abrasive particles’ dynamics. As a softer material, more abrasive particles were entrapped on the PTFE ball’s surface, generating grooving wear on the samples. SS AISI 304 balls, being softer than the abrasive particles (diamond), also allowed particle entrapment, originating from grooving wear. AISI 52100 steel balls presented particle dynamics that are already known. Thus, this study extends the knowledge already existing, allowing to better select the ball material to be used in ball-cratering tests.

Inferring the particle-wise dynamics of amorphous solids from the local structure at the jamming point

Structural information from the contact network at jamming can be used to infer the statistics of the particles' dynamics near such point. Histograms show that particles with similar local structure (i.e. similar colours) move statistically alike.

Particles dynamics around time conformal quintessential Schwarzschild black hole

In this paper, the effect of time is explored on the dynamics of neutral and charged particles around the Schwarzschild (Sch) black hole (BH) environed by quintessence. We introduce a general time conformal factor [Formula: see text] to the quintessential Sch spacetime, where [Formula: see text] is a time ([Formula: see text])-dependent function and [Formula: see text], a small parameter, that causes perturbation in the corresponding spacetime. The Noether symmetry equation is obtained with the help of Lagrangian corresponding to time conformal Sch spacetime environed by quintessence. Consequently, we get a 19 partial differential equations (PDEs) system. The solution of this system gives Noether symmetries, Noether approximate symmetries, and the corresponding conservation laws. The dynamics of neutral/charged particles are studied as well as graphically analyzed at the foot of these invariants.