| Abstract: | Cutting wear is a mechanism by which material is removed through three-body abrasion. In the present paper, a statistical model describing the wear traces on a worn surface is proposed for three-body abrasion, to estimate cutting wear as a proportion of the total wear of the test materials. Using this model, a statistical analysis of the traces on the worn surface was made after short-travel, three-body abrasion tests. The results showed that cutting was not a great proportion of the total wear of the test materials under the conditions of three-body abrasion. |
