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.