w and 4 50 mo aisi t15 steel 300 series stainless steel or nickel alloy matrix steels ph series stainless steels ferretic stainless steels crucible cpm 9 v 10 v and 15 v vanadium carbide containing tool steels d2 type chromium carbide containing tool steels and carpenter aermet 100 thus the wear and traction properties of the tread and flange could be optimized without reducing the strength and life of the wheel body with reference to fig4 an exemplary process 40 includes providing a ring member 30 step 42 providing a worn wheel 10 step 44 machining the ring member 30 to provide inner faying surface 32 step 46 and machining the worn wheel 10 to provide wheel body 12 and outer faying surface 28 step 48 the faying surfaces 28 32 are prepared for bonding step 50 during machining of the worn wheel 10 sufficient material is removed from about the wheel circumference to remove the flange and at least a portion of the rim and provide an outer diameter of wheel body 12 machining step 48 removes oxidation and other surface impurities the machining step is utilized to address defects such as insufficient rim depth worn flange profile out of roundness and others as will be appreciated by those of skill in the art the ring member 24 is machined to the extent necessary to provide an inner diameter able to mate with the outer diameter of wheel body 12 the.