OnthemechanismsofvariousfrettingwearmodesM
ZhounTribologyResearchInstitute,TractionPowerStateKeyLaboratory,SouthwestJiaotongUniversity,Chengdu610031,PRChinaarticleinfoArticlehistory:Received30May2010Receivedinrevisedform31January2011Accepted17February2011Availableonline9March2011Keywords:FrettingwearRadialfrettingTorsionalfrettingRotationalfrettingabstractAccordingtorelativemotiondirectionsforaball-on-flatcontact,therearefourfundamentalfrettingwearmodes,e
,tangential,radial,torsionalandrotationalmodes
Inthispaper,themechanismsofthesefourfundamentalfrettingwearmodes,particularlyforthelaterthreemodes,havebeenreviewedfromresultsobtainedbytheauthorsincombinationwithresultsfromliterature
Somegeneralfeatureshavebeenreported
Differencesbothinrunninganddegradationbehaviorhavebeendiscus