Hüseyin E: DEMİRTAŞ 8th week Unanswered Term

Flank Wear

This type of wear is placed on the flank (relief) face. Wear land formation is not always uniform along the major and minor cutting edges of the tool. It is the more common in the case of hard materials where no chemical affinity between tool and material exists, abrasion being the main wear mechanism.

(Machining of Hard Materials, J. Paulo Davim, p.51)