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Wear particle characterization plays a important role in condition monitoring of machine as most of the breakdown occurs due to wear particle saturation in the lubricating oil. Traditional methods for wear debris analysis depend on human expertise to conclude the results, which are subjective in nature, time consuming, and costly. The objective of this paper is to categorize different techniques of fractal analysis to study the wear particle morphology and calculate fractal dimension of wear particles. Fractal analysis is used to give information about different features of wear particles like fractal dimension, shape, size, color, boundary representation, and surface/texture analysis. This data can be used to detect the fault and decide prognostic maintenance period.
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More, P.P., Jaybhaye, M.D. (2021). Wear Particle Analysis Using Fractal Techniques. In: Kalamkar, V., Monkova, K. (eds) Advances in Mechanical Engineering. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3639-7_21
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