Methods of Promoting WEAR RESISTANCE: Discussed at ASME Meeting

AT THE Design Engineering Conference, organised by The American Society of Mechanical Engineers at Chicago in May, several papers were very much concerned with the subject of Wear and methods of promoting wear resistance —i.e. both as regards materials and management. As E. F. Finkin (Mechanical Technology Inc.) said: Almost all theoretical and experimental knowledge of wear processes was developed after 1950, so it is a rather young science—one might say that before 1950 it was like the weather in that everyone talked about it but no one studied it. Mr. Finkin went on “Today a great body of information exists but is almost completely ignored by United States industry……Three foreign governments, U.K., USSR and E. Germany, have come to realise the importance of the problem and are attempting to do something about it”.