TY - JOUR A1 - Wäsche, Rolf A1 - Sato, K. A1 - Brandt, Guido A1 - Schmid, Thomas A1 - Sasaki, S. A1 - Woydt, Mathias T1 - Wear behaviour of MgO stabilized zirconia in hot steam environment up to 400°C N2 - Self-mated magnesia stabilized zirconia (Mg-PSZ) ceramic sliding couples have been investigated at 100 N load (P0max= 1324 MPa) in oscillating sliding conditions in different humidity conditions in air and in hot steam. Temperatures have been varied up to 400 °C and pressures up to 6 bars. The results show that the wear behavior of MgO-ZrO2 under high Hertzian contact pressures is strongly dependent on temperature and is similar for both dry oscillating and oscillating in hot steam. However, although the evolution in wear rates on temperature is similar and the wear rates of MgO-ZrO2 plunged above 300 °C in hot steam and air by nearly three orders of magnitude, SEM micrographs revealed in hot steam at 400 °C smooth wear tracks. In contrast, hot steam enhanced the tribochemistry of self-mated alumina couples and reduced wear rates. Hot steam decreased the coefficients of friction of MgO-ZrO2 with increasing temperature, but not the wear rates. KW - Hot steam KW - Zirconia KW - Friction KW - Wear KW - Tribofilm KW - Raman spectroscopy PY - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wear.2019.01.047 VL - 426-427 SP - 428 EP - 432 PB - Elsevier B.V. AN - OPUS4-47873 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -