Wear in which metals bond at the real contact spots and, as sliding shears the junctions, material transfers to the counterface or detaches. It causes seizure.
Japanese name: 凝着摩耗
Adhesive wear appears in 1 practice question across 1 topic, including Surface treatment and tribology.
Answer: C. Metals bond strongly at the real contact spots, and when sliding shears the junctions, material from one side transfers to the other or detaches to form wear debris
Adhesive wear occurs when surface atoms bond at the real contact spots (microscopic welding), and when sliding shears the junctions, material tears out of the weaker side, transfers to the counterface and eventually detaches as wear debris. It is severe between clean metals of the same kind and in bad cases leads to seizure. It can be reduced by pairing metals with little mutual solubility, and by lubricants and oxide films. Hard particles or asperities cutting a surface is abrasive wear, and cracks growing from below the surface under repeated contact stress until flakes come off is fatigue wear (fatigue pits and spalling), seen in bearings and gears. In real wear, several of these mechanisms often act at the same time.
Adhesive wear occurs when surface atoms bond at the real contact spots (microscopic welding), and when sliding shears the junctions, material tears out of the weaker side, transfers to the counterface and eventually detaches as wear debris.
Which of the following descriptions of wear mechanisms corr…Abrasive wear Archard wear equation Carburizing Electroless nickel plating Nitriding Real area of contact Stribeck curve