Previous papers, in which the oxidation theory of mild wear has been applied to the wear of low-alloy, medium-carbon steels, have shown in outline how a knowledge of the heat flowing in a pin-on-disc configuration can be related to a surface model and to the parabolic oxidation of contacting asperities. A detailed heat flow analysis is developed and the derivation of the oxidational theory of mild wear is shown.
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