Jospeh Misulia
05/12/2015
HW6.1
1) Adhesive Wear – Adhesive wear can generally be referred to as any time during a wear event
when material is removed from one body due to adhesion to another body.
2) Abrasive Wear – Abrasive wear can happen any time a hard surface slides across the surface of
a less hard surface
3) Surface Fatigue – Surface fatigue is the process wherein the material is worn due to repeated
loading. This wear mechanisms typically feature micro-cracks
4) Erosive Wear – Erosive wear is defined as a series of very short cyclic sliding motions between
two surfaces. Erosive wear is a cumulation of a large quantity of tiny sliding motions between
two surfaces that eventually can be identified on the macro level
5) Fretting Wear - Fretting wear is created due to the repeated cyclic rubbing of two surfaces. A
common example of fretting wear is in bearings, even thought the bearings themselves have
been designed in such a way to limit fretting wear