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thermodynamics, including the minimum entropy production principle by
Prigogine, to describe friction and wear. Klamecki’s work was extended by
Zmitrowicz (1987), Dai et al. (2000), Doelling et al. (2000), and others. Abdel-
Aal (2006) developed a model to predict and explain the role of wear as a
self-organizing occurrence in tribosystems. Tross and Fleischer in Germany
related wear and damage in rail brakes to a so-called critical energy density.
Fleischer in Magdeburg, Germany, won the tribology gold medal for devel-
oping this concept. His student Sadowski (1990, 1995) from Poland contrib-
uted several important ideas to the thermodynamic theory of wear.
Later work by Ling, Doelling, Bryant, ...