“…It is generally quantified by measuring the loss of material, and currently experimental (Pérez et al, 2010;López, 2011;González, 2012;Jia y Zhou, 2012;Rojek, 2014;Singh et al, 2017;Obrad et al, 2018;Chen et al, 2018;Bedolla et al, 2018) and numerical methods have been used for its study. Among the numerical ones, the Distinct or Discrete Element Method (DEM) has the most application for the study of abrasive wear (Graff, 2010;Rojek, 2014;Perazzo et al, 2016;Hoormazdi et al, 2018;Chen et al, 2018;Ucgul et al, 2017, Graff, 2010, Bedolla et al, 2018Montes, Herrera, López, Pérez, & Torres, 2023;Zolotarevskiy, Gallo, Pereira, & Barnett, 2022;Zhang, Fu, Ren, Liu, Lin, Zhang & Zhang, 2024). The advantage of the latter over traditional methods is that it allows predicting the behaviour of a given phenomenon, and also decreases the time required for testing.…”