What is Diffusive Wear - Definition

Diffusion or dissolution wear refers to the damage, erosion or degradation of materials that occurs on a metal’s surface due to increased surface temperatures. When two materials are in contact with each other, atoms from one material could diffuse into the other, causing diffusion or dissolution wear.

In general, wear is mechanically induced surface damage that results in the progressive removal of material due to relative motion between that surface and a contacting substance or substances. A contacting substance may consist of another surface, a fluid, or hard, abrasive particles contained in some form of fluid or suspension, such as a lubricant for example. As is with friction, the presence of wear can be either good or bad. Productive, controlled wear can be found in processes like machining, cutting, grinding and polishing. However, in most of the technological applications, the occurrence of wear is highly undesirable and it is an enormously expensive problem since it leads to the deterioration or even failure of components. In terms of safety it is often not as serious (or as sudden) as fracture. This is because wear is usually anticipated.

Certain material characteristics such as hardness, carbide type, and volume percent can have a decided impact on the wear resistance of a material in a given application. Wear, like corrosion, has multiple types and subtypes, is predictable to some extent, and is rather difficult to reliably test and to evaluate in the lab or in service.

Diffusive wear

Diffusion or dissolution wear refers to the damage, erosion or degradation of materials that occurs on a metal’s surface due to increased surface temperatures. When two materials are in contact with each other, atoms from one material could diffuse into the other, causing diffusion or dissolution wear. Diffusive wear is primarily due to the heat that is produced by adhesion when two rough surfaces move across each other, typically when one metal is sliding across the another one.

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