scholarly journals Alumina-Toughened-Zirconia with Low Wear Rate in Ball-on-Flat Tribological Tests at Temperatures to 500 °C

Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (24) ◽  
pp. 7646
Author(s):  
Marek Grabowy ◽  
Kamil Wojteczko ◽  
Agnieszka Wojteczko ◽  
Grzegorz Wiązania ◽  
Maciej Łuszcz ◽  
...  

An alumina-toughened zirconia (ATZ) material, fabricated using a procedure consisting of the common sintering of two different zirconia powders, was tested using the ball-on-disc method in a temperature range between room temperature and 500 °C. Corundum balls were used as a counterpart. The ATZ composite behaviour during tests was compared with that of commonly used α-alumina and tetragonal zirconia sintered samples. At temperatures over 350 °C, a drastic decrease in the wear rate of the material was detected. SEM analyses proved that, in such conditions, nearly the whole surface of the sliding material was covered with a layer of deformed submicrometric grains, which limited contact with the part of material that was not deformed. The mentioned layer was relatively strongly connected with the material, increased its resistance, and decreased its coefficient of friction. As a reference, commonly used materials, namely commercial alumina and tetragonal zirconia, were tested. The wear parameters of the composite were significantly better than those registered for the materials prepared of commercial powders.

2013 ◽  
Vol 461 ◽  
pp. 415-420
Author(s):  
Jie Peng ◽  
Yu Cheng Liu ◽  
Zhi Feng Yan ◽  
Bao Gang Wang ◽  
Fu Dong Lin ◽  
...  

The friction materials have many species and they are being used widely, but people have higher requests to friction materials along with the development of technology. the friction material of this expermental optimization formula have the advantages of suitable and stable friction coefficient under high temperature, low wear rate, good restoration characteristics and so on. It can effcetively reduce heat fade of friction and wear under high temperature barking. fricton and wear performance of friction material with second adhesive is better than common preparation friction material , it has higher friction coefficient and lower wear rate, It was determined by physical chemical properities of tin and sulfer. while heating or wearing, the temperature of friction material reach melting temperature of tin, it will become molten state, and sulfer has strong oxidation, on the one hand, tin and sulfer occurred chemical reaction, generating sulfide, stannous (one sulfide tin),on the other hand, while the sulfer is being molten state, it will absorb some abrasive dust, at the same time of generating sulfide, abrasive dust will be adsorb and solidify to pits of friction surface, forming abrasive dust membrane, let the friction coefficient of sample become stable rapidly, reducing the wear rate of friction material.


Author(s):  
M. K. Lamvik

When observing small objects such as cellular organelles by scanning electron microscopy, it is often valuable to use the techniques of transmission electron microscopy. The common practice of mounting and coating for SEM may not always be necessary. These possibilities are illustrated using vertebrate skeletal muscle myofibrils.Micrographs for this study were made using a Hitachi HFS-2 scanning electron microscope, with photographic recording usually done at 60 seconds per frame. The instrument was operated at 25 kV, with a specimen chamber vacuum usually better than 10-7 torr. Myofibrils were obtained from rabbit back muscle using the method of Zak et al. To show the component filaments of this contractile organelle, the myofibrils were partially disrupted by agitation in a relaxing medium. A brief centrifugation was done to clear the solution of most of the undisrupted myofibrils before a drop was placed on the grid. Standard 3 mm transmission electron microscope grids covered with thin carbon films were used in this study.


1965 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 1023-1035 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Mather ◽  
Angel Assimos

Abstract A simple screening by gas-liquid chromatography (GLC) can provide definitive answers in the detection and identification of a number of volatile substances, including acetone and the common alcohols. After identification, quantitative assay by an internal-reference technic yields highly specific values for ethyl alcohol concentration with a precision at least equal to (and for low levels, better than) that of conventional assays. The unique advantage of GLC is in its simultaneous quantitative assay of mixtures, some of which cannot be satisfactorily assayed or even recognized in any other way. The combination of speed and negligible sample volumes render the technic valuable for sequential studies on capillary blood samples and, potentially, for mass screening of large populations.


2006 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-83
Author(s):  
G. Maccauro ◽  
R. Sgrambiglia ◽  
T. Micelli ◽  
V. De Santis ◽  
F. Muratori ◽  
...  

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 462-478 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelly Kagan

In Rethinking the Good, Larry Temkin argues that the common belief in the transitivity of better than (all things considered) is incompatible with various other value judgments to which many of us are deeply committed; accordingly, we should take seriously the possibility that the better than relation is not, in fact, a transitive one. However, although Temkin is right, I think, about the mutual incompatibility of the beliefs in question, for the most part his examples don’t leave me inclined to deny transitivity. Nonetheless, there is one example, involving infinity, that does seem to me particularly troubling.


2018 ◽  
Vol 279 ◽  
pp. 153-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna P. Rubshtein ◽  
Alexander B. Vladimirov ◽  
Sergey A. Plotnikov

Hard multilayer coatings are technologically promising materials for reducing wear of tribological parts. Multilayer coatings with a systematic alternation of the pair [(TiCx/Ti/C)÷(a-C)] were deposited on stainless and tool steel by the PVD technique. Hardness (H), elasticity modulus (E) and critical cracking load (Pcr) were determined by the nanoindentation method. Nanofrictional wear test was conducted under multipass sliding of a diamond indenter (Ø 50 nm) under constant load. The specific coefficient of nanofrictional wear of [(TiCx/Ti/C)÷(a-C)]nwith different composition of titanium-containing layers was determined. The nanofrictional wear rate of [(TiCx/Ti/C)÷a-C]ndepends on the elastic and plastic characteristics of multilayer coating as a whole. Coatings having H3/E2> 0.12 and Pcr> 58 mN demonstrate low wear rate.


2019 ◽  
Vol 216 ◽  
pp. 02006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salvatore Viola

In the Mediterranean Sea, the KM3NeT Collaboration is constructing a the deep-sea research infrastructure hosting next generation neutrino telescopes. In the KM3NeT telescopes the Cherenkov radiation induced by the secondary charged particles produced in the interaction of cosmic and atmospheric neutrinos within an effective volume between megaton and several cubic kilometers of water are detected by an array of thousands of photomultipliers. The capability of the telescope to determine the direction of secondary charged particles and to point back to the neutrino source is strongly connected to the accuracy on photomultipliers positions. In KM3NeT, the photomultiplier positions are continuously monitored by an acoustic positioning system, designed by the KM3NeT Collaboration to reach an accuracy of the photomultiplier positions better than 20 cm.


Metals ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 1224
Author(s):  
Zheng Wei ◽  
Yuping Wu ◽  
Sheng Hong ◽  
Weihua Yang ◽  
Wei Shi

In this study, the CoCrAlYTa-10%Al2O3 coatings were prepared by the high-velocity oxygen-fuel (HVOF) spraying. A series of ball-on-disk sliding wear tests were conducted to evaluate the tribological properties of the coatings at different temperatures (25 °C, 200 °C, 400 °C, and 600 °C). The results showed that the average coefficients of friction (COFs) of the CoCrAlYTa-10%Al2O3 coatings were lower than that of H13 steel at different temperatures. The average COFs of the CoCrAlYTa-10%Al2O3 coatings and H13 steel both decreased with increasing temperature. The wear rate of the CoCrAlYTa-10%Al2O3 coatings increased first and then decreased. The microhardness of worn surface of the CoCrAlYTa-10%Al2O3 coatings increased with increasing temperature, while the microhardness of worn surface of H13 steel at 25 °C and 200°C was higher than that at 400 °C and 600 °C. The wear mechanism of the two materials was mainly abrasive wear. The tribofilms were formed on the worn surface of the CoCrAlYTa-10%Al2O3 coatings, which had a good protective effect. Due to thermal softening and low binding strength of debris, it was difficult for H13 steel to form the tribofilms. The wear rate of H13 steel was much higher than that of the CoCrAlYTa-10%Al2O3 coatings at 400 °C and 600 °C, indicating that the high temperature wear resistance of the coatings was much better than that of H13 steel.


Plants ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 248
Author(s):  
Barry Flinn ◽  
Savanah Dale ◽  
Andrew Disharoon ◽  
Stephen Kresovich

Sorghum has been considered a recalcitrant plant in vitro and suffers from a lack of regeneration protocols that function broadly and efficiently across a range of genotypes. This study was initiated to identify differential genotype-in vitro protocol responses across a range of bioenergy sorghum parental lines and the common grain sorghum genotype Tx430 in order to characterize response profiles for use in future genetic studies. Two different in vitro protocols, LG and WU, were used for comparisons. Distinct genotype-protocol responses were observed, and the WU protocol performed significantly better for plantlet regeneration. Most bioenergy genotypes performed as well, if not better than Tx430, with Rio and PI329311 as the top regenerating lines. Genotypes displayed protocol-dependent, differential phenolic exudation responses, as indicated by medium browning. During the callus induction phase, genotypes prone to medium browning exhibited a response on WU medium which was either equal or greater than on LG medium. Genotype- and protocol-dependent albino plantlet regeneration was also noted, with three of the bioenergy genotypes showing albino plantlet regeneration. Grassl, Rio and Pink Kafir were susceptible to albino plantlet regeneration, with the response strongly associated with the WU protocol. These bioenergy parental genotypes, and their differential responses under two in vitro protocols, provide tools to further explore and assess the role of genetic loci, candidate genes, and allelic variants in the regulation of in vitro responsiveness in sorghum.


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