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Adhesive WearAdhesive Wear

During frictional contact, peaks or high points on the surface begin to degrade. The removed material becomes abrasive and begins to compound.

Oxides on the surface, which normally protect the surface from various mechanisms of wear, begin to fragment and aid in cutting away yet more high points. As the material begins to gall and plastically deform, heat and surface contact pressure increase. Fragments from one piece transfer to the other piece and cold-weld themselves together. Surface oxidation films and lubricants generally suppress adhesive wear.

 

 

 

Abrasive Wear

Wear due to hard particles or hard protuberances forced against and moving along two surfaces. If the wear is caused by foreign-abrasive particles, rolling abrasion or three-body abrasion occurs. If the wear is caused by raised protuberances on one or both of the mating surfaces, it is known as two-body abrasion.

 

Abrasive Wear

 

Corrosive Wear

Corrosive wear happens when material loss or degradation occurs due to chemical reactions with part’s surface and the surrounding environment. Environments include humidity, salt water, caustic solutions, acid, etc. The attack can be uniform on the surface or inter-granular (attack made through grain boundaries). Corrosion can be realized as pitting on the surface or sub-surface when penetration occurs in harsh liquid environments. It is important to use consider materials and surface treatments to avoid corrosive wear.
 
Corrosive Wear
 
 
 
 
 
 

Erosive Wear


This type of wear happens when sharp particles impinge and actually cut into the material surface at high velocities, very much like sandblasting. The particles can be carried at high velocities in gases or liquids.

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Surface Fatigue Wear

This type of wear is produced when repeated cyclic sliding or rolling occurs between two loaded surfaces. Discontinuities create high stress points causing the area to cyclically load and unload, plastically deforming the surface back and forth leading to crack formation under the stressed surface. As the cracks propagate the surface, deterioration, spalling and pitting can occur, destroying the part.

 

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