Micromechanics of wear and its application to predict the service life of pneumatic conveying pipelines

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“…Researches have created predictive models of wear of materials which showed that by using the particles' energy dissipated to the surface and the surface material properties, it is possible to predict the overall material loss from the surface. Material loss from the surface can then be used to determine the pipeline thickness loss to indicate the service life of the pipeline (Cenna et al, 2009). These predictive models are quite complex but a rough estimate is that the two bends should be replaced every year or so.…”