This book highlights the tribological behavior of elastomers by investigating the effect of operating variables such as, the applied load and the abrasive particle size, and the materials' mechanical properties such as, tensile strength, elongation at break, hardness, and tear strength by the experimental, statistical and analytical methods. It is found that the wear mechanism is mostly friction wear, which is mixed with fatigue wear and abrading under higher applied loads or larger abrasives. The statistical method shows that the abrasive particle size has the highest contribution followed by the applied load on the wear process. Wear equation is developed to predict the wear rate considering the trends of the input variables.

Dr Ferial Hakami graduated in 2007 with a BSc in Materials Engineering degree from Amir Kabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. She then completed her MS (2010) in Metallurgy & Materials Engineering from University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. She obtained her PhD on the Tribology of Elastomers from Curtin University, Perth, Australia in 2018. Currently, she is working as a visiting scholar at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Curtin University. Her research interests are in the areas of tribology, manufacturing processes, material behavior and material treatment.