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Prevention of Adhesive Wear
Prevention of Adhesive Wear
Prevention of Adhesive Wear
The following guidelines are recommendations to prevent adhesive wear in metals, polymers, and
ceramics:
• If fatigue due to repeated high-contact pressure is not likely to be a problem, then high hardness is a
desired property. However, avoid sliding hard metals against hard metals in lubricated systems to avoid
• Consider the effect of relative hardness of phases in materials. For example, a high-chromium cast iron
may have a hardness of 400 HB, which is moderate. However, that cast iron may contain Cr7C3, which
has a hardness of about four times that of 400 HB and will damage the counter surface considerably.
The same applies to polymers, which seem rather soft relative to metals. However, wear-resisting
polymers often contain glass or some other hard filler that wears metal counterfaces rather severely.
Hard phases in one body may fragment and become embedded in the counterface, which causes
an atmosphere that is corrosive in order to form surface films, many of which produce lower friction