The Work Hardening Of Steel By Abrasion

Author:  Herbert
Source:  Engineering, Oct. 1927
Doc ID:  1927002
Year of Publication:  1927
Abstract:  
The present work describes an investigation into the hardness induced by severe abrasion in locomotive tyres and rails, and in hardened steel gears and cams from motor-cars. The hardness induced by wear is compared with the "maximum induced hardness" measured by a recently developed test made with the pendulum hardness tester. A somewhat similar comparison between the hardness induced by lathe tools in the process of cutting certain steels, and the hardness induced by the pendulum in the same steels, has been previously described by the author.