Abrasive wear of steels in handling of bulk particulates: an appraisal of wall friction measurement as an indicator of wear rate

The advantages of using wall friction instead of hardness to indicate likely relative wear rates are given consideration and discussed. The results of sliding abrasive wear tests on a variety of commercially available steels using two particulate solids are presented, together with the results of wall friction tests between the same steels and one of the particulate solids. Correlations found between the wear rates and wall friction data are presented, and are shown to hold for both particulate solids.