By analyzing peculiarities of the phenomenon of hydrogen wear, in particular, the formation of a hydrophilic zone, we present approaches to its simulation for subsurface layers of metal by using mathematical models developed earlier by the authors.The phenomenon of hydrogen wear is a complex of thermodynamically low-probability physicochemical processes caused by friction. The main processes are liberation of hydrogen from the environment, its passage through the surface of a metallic counterbody, and specific fracture of surface layers.For a long time, it was impossible to explain or predict this phenomenon on the basis of the known theoretical concepts. Indeed, up to the middle 70s, wear was considered as a superposition of two simultaneous processes (rubbing out and crumpling) [ 1 ]. Moreover, by rubbing out and crumpling, one meant, respectively, the process of separation or cutting of particles followed by their subsequent removal from the friction zone and a decrease in a linear size due to flattening which occurs without loss of mass. Since the repetition of deformation was not taken into account, a question on the influence of hydrogen on fracture of surface layers of metal did not arise because it does not manifest itself under single loading. It is known that hydrogen is liberated from metals in the process of heating of steel components. Since heat is emitted in the process of friction, it seems quite natural to admit dehydrogenation of metal instead of hydrogenation that was shown further in [2,3]. The question of sources of hydrogen remained open. Despite the fact that tribodestruction of organic lubricant-cooling media and other media was regarded, in general, as possible under friction, the cause-effect connection such as "hydrogen-wear" was not considered for service of machines. At the same time, the analysis of actual facts and displays of hydrogen wear indicates the danger and large-scale character of this phenomenon (see Table 1) [4][5][6].Comparison of facts concerning the liberation of hydrogen in the process of friction, an increase in wear of a surface under hydrogenation, and paradoxical fracture of a solid surface of products made of steels, cast irons, and titanium, which operate together with soft plastic materials and some other ones, led to a problem of factors characterizing hydrogen wear in a wide range of friction conditions.A comprehensive analysis of data on hydrogen wear allows one to state the following:--the phenomenon requires complex approaches in the frameworks of mechanics, physics, and chemistry;--a particular hydrophilic state of the subsurface layer formed during friction with an increased concentration of hydrogen, which could be greater than its bulk concentration by one order, is observed;--two forms of cyclic (fatigue) fracture of steel during friction are established which were not encountered in investigations of hydrogen brittleness, namely, instantaneous total fracture of the surface layer and its slow dispersion;--neither sources of hydrogenation nor moving fo...