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Friction systems running in cryogenic environment are critical in respect to wear and frictional heat generation because in this temperature range, conventional lubricants can't be applied. In order to test the friction and wear behaviour of appropriate solid lubricants and wear resistant material combinations in cryogenic environment, including liquid hydrogen, special test rigs have been constructed. These devices provide test conditions for tribological investigations at temperatures ranging from 4.2K to room temperature in liquid or gaseous environment at pressures between 10-3 mbar and 20 bar. Investigations on polymers, composites and metals with and without coatings show that there is a broad variety of appropriate materials for cryogenic friction units, but the behaviour of austenitic steels in such systems gives an example of non sufficient knowledge in this field.
Spacers and supports belong to the critical elements in the structure of a nuclear fusion device, particularly, when they are installed in the vacuum or superconducting magnet system of the reactor. These supports have to sustain high loads while allowing a certain amount of tangential movement with low friction and without any stick-slip motion. Vacuum and cryogenic environments are extremely hostile for smooth sliding systems, because conventional liquid lubricants cannot be employed, and only a very limited number of materials for dry sliding systems under these conditions are available. In order to test the friction behaviour of support elements in the field coils of the fusion experiment WENDELSTEIN 7-X, a test rig was build which allows testing in liquid helium environment at 4.2 K, with a normal force up to 150 kN, and a sliding velocity of 0.1 mm/s in oscillating motion. First tests have shown that the apparatus is appropriate for simulating the sliding behaviour of support elements. As an example, a result of an earlier model test of an MoS2-coating is shown.