Wear is a complicated phenomenon caused by the relative movement of two contacting surfaces compressed together by a normal force. Prediction of the wear, in most cases, requires various experiments and microstructural characterization of the contacting surfaces. Mathematical models based on physical concepts could provide considerable help in understanding the physical behavior and hence the p...

Wear is a complicated phenomenon caused by the relative movement of two contacting surfaces compressed together by a normal force. Prediction of the wear, in most cases, requires various experiments and microstructural characterization of the contacting surfaces. Mathematical models based on physical concepts could provide considerable help in understanding the physical behavior and hence the p...

Soil structure controls key soil functions in both natural and agro-ecosystems. Thus, numerous attempts have been made to develop methods aiming at its characterization. Here we propose an index of that uses relative entropy quantify differences the porosity pore(void)-size distribution (VSD) between a structured derived from water retention data same without (a so-called reference soil) estima...