Tribological behavior of CrN coating on aluminum alloys deposited by arc ion plating

2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (12) ◽  
pp. 3133-3138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fei Zhou ◽  
Chang-Min Suh ◽  
Seock-Sam Kim ◽  
Ri-Ichi Murakami

Dry sliding wear and friction tests of CrN coating on two types of aluminum alloy substrates, 6061 Al and 7075 Al, deposited by arc ion plating were performed with a ball-on-disk tribometer. The effects of normal load and the mechanical properties of the substrate on the friction coefficient and wear resistance of CrN coating were investigated. The worn surfaces were observed by scanning electron microscopy. The results show that surface microhardness of CrN-coated 7075 Al is higher than that of CrN-coated 6061 Al. With an increase in normal load, wear volume increases, while the friction coefficient decreases. The friction coefficient of CrN-coated 6061 Al is higher than that of CrN-coated 7075 Al, while the wear resistance of CrN-coated 6061 Al is lower than that of the CrN-coated 7075 Al. This indicates that the substrate mechanical properties have strong influence on the friction coefficient and wear of CrN coating. The main wear mechanism was fragments of CrN coating, caused by apparent plastic deformation of substrate during wear tests.

Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 719
Author(s):  
Yuki Hirata ◽  
Ryotaro Takeuchi ◽  
Hiroyuki Taniguchi ◽  
Masao Kawagoe ◽  
Yoshinao Iwamoto ◽  
...  

Amorphous boron carbon nitride (a-BCN) films exhibit excellent properties such as high hardness and high wear resistance. However, the correlation between the film structure and its mechanical properties is not fully understood. In this study, a-BCN films were prepared by an arc-sputtering hybrid process under various coating conditions, and the correlations between the film’s structure and mechanical properties were clarified. Glow discharge optical emission spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy, and Raman spectroscopy were used to analyze the structural properties and chemical composition. Nanoindentation and ball-on-disc tests were performed to evaluate the hardness and to estimate the friction coefficient and wear volume, respectively. The results indicated that the mechanical properties strongly depend on the carbon content in the film; it decreases significantly when the carbon content is <90%. On the other hand, by controlling the contents of boron and nitrogen to a very small amount (up to 2.5 at.%), it is possible to synthesize a film that has nearly the same hardness and friction coefficient as those of an amorphous carbon (a-C) film and better wear resistance than the a-C film.


Author(s):  
Mariana H. Staia ◽  
Eli S. Puchi-Cabrera ◽  
Y. Y. Santana ◽  
J. G. La Barbera-Sosa ◽  
Alain Iost ◽  
...  

The present investigation has been conducted in order to evaluate the tribological behavior of an AA2024-T3 aluminum alloy, coated with a NiP-CrC-DLC coating. The effect of NiP as intermediate layer was evaluated by carrying out calculations using ELASTICA© in order to determine its adequate thickness needed to avoid the plastic deformation of the substrate, ensuring then the integrity of the coating. To evaluate the efficiency of these calculations, a number of dry sliding wear tests were performed employing a ball-on-disk configuration, where alumina balls of 6 mm in diameter were used as counterpart. The sliding wear tests were carried out up to a sliding distance of 800 m, with a normal load of 5 N, a linear speed of 5 cm/s and a contact radius of 3 mm. The wear tracks were analyzed by means of scanning electron microscopy (SEM) techniques coupled with energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS). The wear volume was determined by means of optical profilometry. The results indicate that, under the present testing conditions, the NiP-CrC-DLC coating exhibits a satisfactory behavior from the mechanical stability point of view when the thickness of the NiP layer is higher than 60 μm, since no surface failures were observed at the end of the tests. For the coated system, the magnitude of the friction coefficient was found to be of approximately 0.1 and that of the wear rate was of about 2.31 ± 0.09 x 10-16 m3/N.m. On the contrary, for the uncoated substrate, the friction coefficient was of approximately 0.5 and the wear rate of 5.46 x 10-13 m3/N.m, that is to say, 3 orders of magnitude greater than that determined for the coated system.


2003 ◽  
Vol 169-170 ◽  
pp. 336-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyung-Hwang Lee ◽  
Yasushi Inoue ◽  
Hiroyuki Sugimura ◽  
Osamu Takai

2021 ◽  
Vol 1016 ◽  
pp. 1618-1623
Author(s):  
Jittraporn Wongsa-Ngam ◽  
Jie Xu ◽  
Chakkrist Phongphisutthinan ◽  
Terence G. Langdon

An aluminum silicon-based alloy Al-7wt%Si-2wt%Fe, was processed by severe plastic deformation technique in high-pressure torsion (HPT) at room temperature under a pressure of 6.0 GPa and rotational speed of 1.0 rpm with various numbers of turns up to five. Microstructure evolution, especially iron-containing intermetallic phases, was observed using an optical microscope and a scanning electron microscope (SEM). The microstructure results demonstrate that the large strains introduced by HPT at ambient temperature cause fragmentation of iron-intermetallic particles. The degree of fragmentation increases with increasing numbers of turns so that the intermetallic particles decreased in size with increasing imposed strain. In addition, the wear properties were evaluated using ball-on-disc dry sliding testing for both the as-cast material and the alloy processed by HPT using micro-tribometer UMT-2 (CETR Co., USA) following the ASTM G99-05 (2010) standard. The wear tests were conducted on the surface of the samples at 1.5 mm from the disc center under a normal load of 5 N with a rotational speed of 60 rpm and sliding time of 10 min. The friction coefficient and wear volume loss were examined to evaluate the effect of HPT on wear resistance. The results show that the samples processed by HPT have lower average values for the COF and wear volume loss than that of unprocessed samples.


PRICM ◽  
2013 ◽  
pp. 2111-2115
Author(s):  
Min Zhang ◽  
Yuli Pan ◽  
Xiaogang Hu ◽  
Ye Huang ◽  
Guoqiang Lin ◽  
...  

Coatings ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ting Xie ◽  
Shihao Feng ◽  
Yongheng Qi ◽  
Ailong Cui

Coatings are normally employed to meet some functional requirements. There is a kind of self-generated coating during use, such as the transfer layer during sliding, which may greatly affect the tribological behavior. Although the transfer layer has aroused much attention recently, the formation of the transfer layer closely depends on the service conditions, which need to be further studied. In this paper, the effects of sliding speed, normal load, and duration of wear test on the transfer layer thickness during friction of Ni/PTFE (Polytetrafluoroethylene) composites were experimentally investigated. The formation mechanism of transfer layer and the relationships between tribological properties and transfer layer thickness were analyzed in detail. It was found that the transfer layer thickness increased with increases of sliding speed and normal load; and after a period of wear test, the transfer layer thickness remained stable. The transfer layer thickness correlates linearly with the friction coefficient and wear volume of the PTFE composites. With the increase of the transfer layer thickness, the friction coefficient decreased, while the wear volume increased, which means that a uniform, thin, and stable transfer layer is beneficial for the reduction of friction and wear of the polymeric composites.


2008 ◽  
Vol 368-372 ◽  
pp. 744-747
Author(s):  
Xiao Ping Liang ◽  
Shao Bo Xin ◽  
Xiao Hui Wang ◽  
Zheng Fang Yang

The wear properties of ADZ (alumina dispersed in Y-TZP) and MDZ (mullite dispersed in Y-TZP) were investigated by using a ring-on-block tribometer. The results showed that for Y-TZP ceramic, the addition of alumina phase (with 10-20% in mass fraction) leads to an improved wear resistance. With the increase of the normal load, the wear rates of ADZ ceramics increase. Under low and medium normal load (100N and 300N), the wear resistance is controlled by the hardness of ceramics, and under high normal load (500N) the fracture toughness is obviously contributed to the wear resistance of the ceramics. For MDZ ceramic, the wear resistance of 15MDZ (15wt% mullite dispersed in Y-TZP) is better than that of 20 MDZ (20wt% mullite) under the normal load from 100 N to 500 N. The mechanical properties of 15MDZ are worse than that of Y-TZP ceramic, but the wear resistance is enhanced due to the action of “needle roller bearing” of the fractured rod-like mullite particles.


2015 ◽  
Vol 642 ◽  
pp. 55-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shueiwan Henry Juang ◽  
Liang Jing Fan ◽  
Hsu Shuo Chang

In this study, the multi-pass friction stir processing (MP-FSP) technique was performed on ADC6 aluminum alloy + 5 wt% fly ash composite (A5FC) castings to increase their surface area. The dry sliding wear behaviors of the ADC6 alloy, A5FCs, and MP-FSPed A5FCs were evaluated. Dry sliding wear tests were performed using a ring-on-washer machine at a constant rotation speed of 100 rpm for 60 min, and the normal load was 10, 20, 30, and 40 N. The results showed that the MP-FSPed A5FCs had the lowest wear rates in the load range from 10 to 40 N, and adhesive wear was the major wear mechanism in these tests. The increased wear resistance was mainly due to grain refinement and elimination of casting defects after subjecting the ash composite to MP-FSP. The microstructure of the MP-FSPed A5FCs reveals that the sizes of the added raw fly ash particles decreased from micro-to nanoscale levels, and the nanoscale fly ash was uniformly dispersed in the aluminum matrix.


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