Theory 166/Textile wear/Rate lens
Wear Follows Abrasion Cycles
The claim
Textile failure is set by the rate of fibre loss per abrasion cycle rather than by total cycles.
01Mechanism
Each cycle removes a fraction of surface fibres; the rate determines when the structure fails.
02Prediction
Failure should track the rate per cycle.
03Refutation
Failure tracking total cycles would remove the per-cycle loss.