Role of materials and surface treatments
Usure des contacts mécaniques

The corresponding requirements are based on the following data.

• Properties required for different wear modes

  The table at 2 gives an overview of the main elementary phenomena encountered on mechanical friction contacts, and their relative orientations in terms of material properties.

   

  It should be noted that, while mechanical wear can be fairly directly correlated with certain intrinsic material characteristics, adhesive wear has the...