Sliding component

Abstract

Provided is a sliding member in which a first member having a low hardness and a second member having a high hardness slide against each other via a lubricant. The sliding member has an optimized profile relationship between large waviness and fine roughness applied to the first member, improved retention and wettability of the lubricant, and increased seizure resistance. In the sliding member in which the first member and the second member having a higher hardness than the first member slide against each other via a lubricant, an isotropic texture in which a valley area is 1000 μm2/mm or more and 20000 μm2/mm or less and RLo (λc: 0.08 mm) is 1% or more and 12% or less is applied to a part of the first member which is in contact with the second member.

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