Fatigue Wear — Industry Glossary Entry
Definition of fatigue wear in industrial cutting: loss of knife material by sub-surface crack propagation under repeated thermal-mechanical cycling.
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Flatness — Industry Glossary Entry
Definition of flatness in industrial blade measurement: the deviation of a face from a perfect plane, and how flatness affects the contact area between knife.
Galling — Industry Glossary Entry
Definition of galling in industrial cutting: severe adhesive wear where substrate material welds to the edge, tears off, and re-welds.
Grit Size — Industry Glossary Entry
Definition of grit size in industrial blade grinding: the abrasive particle size of a grinding wheel, and how grit size affects surface finish.
Gross Fracture — Glossary Entry
Definition of gross fracture in industrial cutting: complete break of a knife, usually catastrophic and immediate. The rarest but most expensive failure mode.
Hardness File Test — Glossary Entry
Definition of the hardness file test in industrial blade quality control: a quick, portable method for verifying blade hardness using calibrated files.