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Pressurised Water Reactors (PWR) use hard facings, which have low wear rates and friction. Galling wear creates extremely high friction. Hard facing alloys, such as those used in nuclear power plant, are composite materials comprising carbides (and other hard phases), in galling resistant metallic matrices. This project will identify the mechanism by which the hard phase supports galling resistance, in order to build a predictive model.