TY - JOUR A1 - Urchegui, M.A. A1 - Hartelt, Manfred A1 - Wäsche, Rolf A1 - Gómez, X. T1 - Analysis of different strategies to reduce fretting wear in thin steel roping wires N2 - After having checked in a previous study the influence of stroke and normal load in laboratory fretting tests accomplished with thin steel roping wires, in this paper the effect of the contact pressure (test configuration), environmental conditions (relative humidity) and reduction of the friction coefficient (lubricants) on the wear behaviour were analysed. The wires were 0.45 mm in diameter and the material was a cold-drawn eutectoid carbon steel (0.8% C) with a Tensile Strength over 2800 MPa. The tests were performed on an oscillating test rig and the volumetric wear of both specimens of the tribocouple was determined separately from three-dimensional topographies of the wear scars acquired by means of a confocal profiler, and a calculation algorithm developed in using MATLAB®. The strong effect of humidity and lubrication on wear behaviour was proved, whereas a slight effect of contact pressure was derived. KW - Wires KW - Fretting test KW - Contact pressure PY - 2008 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/tt.52 SN - 1354-4063 SN - 1557-685X VL - 14 IS - 1 SP - 43 EP - 57 PB - Coppin CY - Deal AN - OPUS4-16677 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -