fretting
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Article
12 sectionsContents
- Materials
- Steel
- Aluminium
- Products affected
- Fretting electrical/electronic connectors
- Fretting in rolling element bearings
- Fretting fatigue
- Factors affecting fretting
- Mitigation
- See also
- References
- External links
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Fretting refers to wear and sometimes corrosion damage of loaded surfaces in contact while they encounter small oscillatory movements tangential to the surface. Fretting is caused by adhesion of contact surface asperities, which are subsequently broken again by the small movement. This breaking causes wear debris to be formed.