How do hardness and microstructure determine abrasive resistance?
A lot of my customers put hardness as a priority condition to value the abrasive resistant characteristics of wear plates.Here I hope to declare some points as below：
- High hardness does not mean good wear resistance
- The material’s microstructure and not its hardness determines abrasive resistance wear characteristics
- Chemical composition & bulk hardness influence abrasion resistance
- Abrasion resistance is not apparent in a hardness test but in an actual wear test such as ASTM G65.
This article was published on 2026-08-14, and last updated on 2026-08-14. The article will be continuously updated.
