A CRITICAL REVIEW ON DIFFERENT TYPES OF WEAR OF MATERIALS

Many mechanical equipments are subjected to sliding contact in real time applications. Pumps, valves, belt drives, bearings, machinery guide ways, piston- cylinder arrangements etc. are the few important sliding components which are continuously subjected to sliding wear. Much mechanical equipment’s failure occurred due to wear related problems. Therefore, understanding of different wear mechanism is important to design the mechanical components. In this paper, various wear mechanisms have been discussed with the help previous published research works and text books.