Phenomena of friction, wear, and noise in mechanical contacts are particularly important in the field of tribomechanics but equally complex if one wants to represent their exact relationship with mathematical models. Efforts have been made to describe these phenomena with different approaches in past. These efforts have been compiled in different reviews but most of them treated friction, wear mechanics, and acoustic noise separately. However, an in-depth review that provides a critical analysis on their interdependencies is still missing. In this review paper, the interdependencies of friction, wear, and noise are analysed in the mechanical contacts at asperitical level. The origin of frictional noise, its dependencies on contact’s mechanical properties, and its performance under different wear conditions are critically reviewed. A discussion on the existing mathematical models of friction and wear is also provided in the last section that leads to uncover the gap in the existing literature. This review concludes that still a comprehensive analytical modelling approach is required to relate the interdependencies of friction, noise, and wear with mathematical expressions.

机械接触中的摩擦、磨损和噪声现象在摩擦力学领域尤为重要，但如果想用数学模型表示它们的确切关系，则同样复杂。过去已经努力用不同的方法来描述这些现象。这些努力已编入不同的评论中，但其中大多数分别处理了摩擦、磨损力学和声学噪声。但是，仍然缺少对它们的相互依赖性进行批判性分析的深入审查。在这篇综述论文中，摩擦、磨损和噪声的相互依赖性在非球面机械接触中进行了分析。摩擦噪声的起源、它对接触机械性能的依赖，以及它在不同磨损条件下的性能都经过严格审查。最后一节还讨论了现有的摩擦和磨损数学模型，从而揭示了现有文献中的差距。这篇综述得出的结论是，仍然需要一种综合的分析建模方法来将摩擦、噪声和磨损的相互依赖性与数学表达式联系起来。