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.