Reliability Degradation, Wear, and Competing Failure Modes of Nickel-Based Hard Alloy–Coated Part Mating Surface

Reliability, quality, durability, performance, vibration, noise intensity, lifetime, and other properties of machines, mechanisms, and instruments to a high degree depend on the wear of part surfaces. Wear is the process of destroying or removing materials from the surfaces of hard bodies and (or) the formation of residual deformation during friction that gradually changes the sizes and forms of a body.