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Wear of ceramic-based dental materials

Researchers compared wear rates and failure mechanisms of several ceramic-based dental materials using a laboratory test simulating chewing contact, finding that zirconia showed the lowest wear and lithium disilicate the highest, with microcracking and microplasticity (small-scale plastic deformation) identified as the key material-removal mechanisms.

2019 Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials/Journal of mechanical behavior of biomedical materials 90 citations
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The effect of heat flow from friction forces on the surface of the billets

This engineering study examined how friction-generated heat affects the surface of ceramic billets during grinding operations. The paper is an industrial manufacturing study and is not related to microplastics or environmental health.

2023 E3S Web of Conferences
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On the Formation and Characterization of Nanoplastics During Surface Wear Processes

Researchers characterized nanoplastic particle generation during surface wear processes, finding that mechanical abrasion of bulk plastic materials produces a broad size distribution of particles including sub-100 nm fragments, with surface wear rate depending on polymer hardness and contact conditions.

2025 Surfaces
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A Microplasticity Analysis of Micro-Cutting Force Variation in Ultra-Precision Diamond Turning

This ultra-precision machining engineering paper developed a microplasticity model to predict how cutting forces vary with the crystallographic orientation of aluminum when machined with diamond tools. This is a precision manufacturing study where 'microplasticity' refers to sub-yield material deformation, not environmental microplastic particles.

2002 Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering 55 citations
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Dynamic Processes of Substructural Rearrangement under Friction of Carbon Steel

This study examined how heat treatment affects the friction and wear properties of medium carbon steel, linking material microstructure to tribological performance. The research is focused on materials engineering with limited direct relevance to microplastic pollution or human health.

2023 Advances in Science and Technology – Research Journal 1 citations
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Subsurface mechanical damage correlations after grinding of various optical materials

Researchers studied how loose abrasive grinding causes subsurface damage in various optical materials. This materials engineering paper has no relevance to environmental microplastics.

2019 Optical Engineering 29 citations
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Influence of hard phase size and spacing on the fatigue crack propagation in tool steels—Numerical simulation and experimental validation

Not relevant to microplastics research; this paper investigates how carbide size and spacing in tool steel microstructures affects fatigue crack growth rate, with no connection to plastic pollution.

2023 Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & Structures 6 citations
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Fatigue of Yttria‐Stabilized Zirconia: II, Crack Propagation, Fatigue Striations, and Short‐Crack Behavior

This materials science study examines fatigue crack propagation in yttria-stabilized zirconia ceramic, establishing a growth law based on stress intensity factors to predict fatigue lifetime. The term 'microplastic' in this paper refers to microscale plastic deformation in ceramics and is unrelated to environmental plastic pollution.

1991 Journal of the American Ceramic Society 115 citations
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Role of Grain Boundary Sliding in Texture Evolution for Nanoplasticity

This materials science paper presents a crystal plasticity model for how grain boundary sliding affects texture evolution in nanocrystalline metals under large deformation. It is a technical metallurgy study with no connection to microplastics or environmental health.

2017 Advanced Engineering Materials 25 citations
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Effect of Scratch Velocity on Deformation Features of C-plane Sapphire during Nanoscratching

This engineering study examined how the speed of a nanoscratching tool affects the deformation and cracking of sapphire crystal surfaces. This is a materials science study focused on advanced ceramics manufacturing with no relevance to microplastic pollution.

2013 Strojniški vestnik – Journal of Mechanical Engineering 28 citations
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Tribo-driven evolution of specific nano-heterostructures to achieve exceptional wear resistance in composites

This materials science study investigated wear behavior in a NiAlTa/cBN composite produced by spark plasma sintering, finding that tribologically driven formation of specific nano-heterostructures in the wear surface produced an extremely low wear rate and reduced friction coefficient.

2025 Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials 3 citations
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Influence of Feed Rate Response (FRR) on Chip Formation in Micro and Macro Machining of Al Alloy

This engineering paper studied chip formation in aluminum alloy machining at micro and macro scales to understand material removal mechanics. This manufacturing research is unrelated to microplastic environmental research.

2021 Metals 23 citations