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Size Distribution of Wear Particles by Area and Perimeter Using Hot Ferrography

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Wear is progressive deterioration of machine components by the loss of weight and shape results in generation of wear debris. For the analysis of these wear debris, ferrography method is widely used. This method was successfully used to examine the condition monitoring of martial aircraft engines, gearboxes, bearings, heavy earth moving machineries, turbines etc. Ferrographic condition monitoring as a preventive maintenance done by collecting oil sample. Ferrogram’s images taken under a microscope for monitoring wear particle contamination of these oil samples. Both qualitative and quantitative analysis of the wear particles was done from these image analyses. Novelty of this research work is use of hot ferrography for getting detailed information about machine health condition. A detailed Excel sheet containing information about the size distribution of wear particles in terms of count, area, perimeter, aspect ratio, and mean diameter was created using data from the Olympus microscope software and a ferrogram. From this data, wear mode, its source, mechanism can be easily detected.

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Kamble, S.N., Rajiv, B. Size Distribution of Wear Particles by Area and Perimeter Using Hot Ferrography. J Fail. Anal. and Preven. 24, 538–546 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11668-024-01855-4

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