TY - JOUR A1 - Cruzado, A. A1 - Hartelt, Manfred A1 - Wäsche, Rolf A1 - Urchegui, M.A. A1 - Gómez, X. T1 - Fretting wear of thin steel wires. Part 1: Influence of contact pressure N2 - Different fretting tests of thin steel wires under different conditions (loads, strokes, number of cycles and mean pressures) were performed. The wires used had 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 carried out with 90° "crossed cylinders" configuration varying the stroke, normal load and testing time (number of cycles). Afterwards the volumetric wear was obtained using surface profilometry with diamond stylus. With a classical study of the coefficient of wear with respect to the sliding distance, the results show that the wear coefficient increases with normal load and stroke, consequently, for the same sliding distance, the wear produced was higher when the load and/or stroke is increased. In this work, the coefficient of wear is decreasing continuously as the test is running. In order to analyze better the wear behaviour, another method, in which the volumetric wear is compared with respect to the Archard's loading factor, is proposed. As result of this method, two distinctive behaviours were detected; one corresponds to the running-in period with a more aggressive wear behaviour and the second one to the stable steady state period. In all the tests the running-in period was similar with regard to the wear rates but in the stable period the wear rates were increasing with higher loads or strokes. KW - Fretting KW - Wear KW - Wires KW - Contact pressure KW - Unlubricated tests PY - 2010 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wear.2010.02.017 SN - 0043-1648 VL - 268 IS - 11-12 SP - 1409 EP - 1416 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-21181 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cruzado, A. A1 - Hartelt, Manfred A1 - Wäsche, Rolf A1 - Urchegui, M.A. A1 - Gómez, X. T1 - Fretting wear of thin steel wires. Part 2: Influence of crossing angle N2 - The wear behaviour of thin steel wires has been analyzed under oscillating sliding conditions in crossed cylinders contact geometry. The focus of this analysis was the influence of the crossing angle between the wires on the wear. The wires used had 0.45 mm in diameter and the material was cold-drawn eutectoid carbon steel (0.8% C) with a tensile strength higher than 2800 MPa. Two different types of tests were carried out, the first one representing the influence of the crossing angle for a constant load and the second one representing the influence of the crossing angle with constant contact pressure. In the first type of tests it was seen that as the contact angle decreases the contact pressure decreases too and hence less energy specific wear resistance is observed. As a consequence less wear is produced, thus increasing the life of the wires. In the second type of tests it was seen that with constant contact pressure but different crossing angles, nearly the same energy specific wear resistance was observed. This points at an identical wear behaviour in both type of tests but with a running-in and a steady state period as two different wear periods. The tests showed that the running in period may play an important role in the overall wear particle generation and hence the wear occurring in the steady state period is rather mild. KW - Fretting KW - Wires KW - Contact pressure KW - Crossing angle PY - 2011 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wear.2011.04.012 SN - 0043-1648 VL - 273 IS - 1 SP - 60 EP - 69 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-31762 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -