<a style="color:#000" href="https://www.tugraz.at/institute/ittm">Institute of Thermal Turbomachinery and Machine Dynamics</a></br><a href="https://www.tugraz.at">Graz University of Technology</a> https://aeroenginesafety.tugraz.at/ 2026-04-19T13:15:53+00:00 https://aeroenginesafety.tugraz.at/ https://aeroenginesafety.tugraz.at/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:logo.png text/html 2020-06-25T20:43:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://aeroenginesafety.tugraz.at/doku.php?id=6:6&rev=1593117805&do=diff 6. Fretting - 6.1 Fundamentals of Fretting Damage - 6.2 Damage Caused by Fretting - 6.3 Preventing Fretting Damage <a id="fretting"></a> [ Fretting ] The term fretting is used to describe phenomena including fretting corrosion, wear oxidation, contact erosion, false brinelling, coke formation. In the following text, fretting is taken to mean friction wear that occurs between oscillating contact surfaces. Fretting can cause mechanical wear (geometric/volume wear) as well as chemical reacti…