Wear (erosion)
damaging, gradual removal or deformation of material at solid surfaces / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In materials science, wear is the erosion of material from a solid surface by the action of another solid. The study of the processes of wear is part of the discipline of tribology. There are four principal wear processes:
- Adhesive wear
- Abrasive wear
- Corrosive wear
- Surface fatigue