+Fretting wear: A phenomological approach

Abstract

An analytical description of fretting wear is proposed wherein the volume of wear debris either removed from the sliding interface or retained within these areas, is represented as a fraction of the freshly-produced debris in each fretting pass. In the proposed model, the volumes respectively of removed debris and of retained debris are tallied over each pass of a fretting sequence to yield a closed analytical expression relating these volumes to the number of passes. The paper provides an example of the adaptation of the proposed model to experimental wear data on steel-steel fretting interfaces.