The purpose of this test is to determine the susceptibility
of non-noble metal contact interfaces to the phenomena
of fretting corrosion. Fretting corrosion is an accelerated
oxidation of contact surfaces brought about by smallamplitude
cyclic relative motions between mating
contacts. In this test,.a driving motion is imposed which
tends to cause relative motion at the contact surfaces.
From contact resistance measurements, one determines
whether the resulting contact motion, if any, generates
significant or detrimental films in the contact interface.