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Ceramics are of increasing interest for application in many branches of technique. In order to improve the tribological performance of ceramic materials, composites on the basis of silicon carbide with different amounts of titanium carbide, boron carbide, titanium diboride and free carbon in the form of graphite were manufactured by a reaction sintering process.
The friction and wear behaviour of these composites was investigated with oscillating sliding motion in unlubricated tests at room temperature on different levels of relative humidity. Additional tests were performed under water lubrication, revealing the superior behaviour of composites for special test conditions. A major influence of the free carbon on friction or wear behaviour was not observed. The tribological behaviour in air as well as under water is mainly dependant on the amount of titanium phases.
Ceramic particulate composites in the system SiC-TiC-TiB2 sliding against SiC and Al2O3 under water
(1999)
The tribological behaviour of SiC, SiC-TiC and SiC-TiC-TiB2 was determined in oscillating sliding against SiC and -Al2O3 in water at room temperature. The tribo-systems with the composite materials containing TiC and TiB2 differ significantly from the systems with the single phase SiC: The wear is reduced and the friction is increased. The wear reduction up to a factor of 10 is mainly due to the formation of an oxide film containing titanium oxides which is soft, stable in water and well adhering to the bulk material. This oxide film is transferred to the alumina ball but not to the silicon carbide ball.
The friction and wear behaviour of thin hard coatings, such as TiN and the promising class of C-based coatings (a-C, a-C:H, and diamond for example), are compared under oscillating and reciprocating sliding conditions. The typical effects of test parameters, such as stroke, frequency, normal force, relative humidity and test duration, are described as a basis for the proper selection of test conditions or, conversely, for the selection of suitable coatings for particular practical applications.
Friction and wear data from over 1000 vibrating tests using thin hard coatings against 100Cr6 and against Al2O3 have been compiled in a database. This allows easy manipulation and comparison of test results. Using selection criteria and filter procedures (e. g., lifetime of coatings, friction limits, and critical wear rate), suitable coating systems for different test conditions can be chosen from the database. The effects of test parameters on friction and wear behaviour and changes have anyway to be known for meaningful tribotesting, as well as for the selection of coatings.
Contact formation and development are the basis of friction and wear modelling and understanding. Unanimously topography formation and development in friction contacts are regarded of highest importance for understanding and modelling friction processes. The frequently found running in behaviour of sliding contacts is—aside from the build up of reaction and transfer layers-at least partly caused by the topography development due to friction processes until a stable equilibrium state is reached.
Experimental results of friction and topography measurements are presented which demonstrate the mutual modification of friction and contact topography.
A special experimental set up with an AFM allowed to correlate the measured friction forces with the contact position and the topography at this point. In this way, friction force transitions and changes can be assigned to topography changes due to abrasion, adhesion and wear particle agglomeration.
Contact surfaces with artificial regular structures have been prepared to avoid problems with topography and friction correlation due to the statistical nature of roughness on technical contact surfaces. The friction effects of roughness were simulated by etched ditches of defined width, depth and distance on silicon or metal surfaces. This allowed to explain the mutual influences of topography and friction. The effect of a single asperity and of the 'roughness structures' could be demonstrated.
Topography measurements with an AFM correlated with the friction force could help to understand friction changes without changing any parameter.
Polycrystalline diamond layers were deposited onto the titanium alloy Ti6Al4V via microwave plasma chemical vapor deposition (CVD). It is shown that the diamond film reduces wear and friction immensely compared with uncoated titanium/titanium tribo systems. An additional polishing process of the CVD-diamond layer improves the wear behavior even further. An influence of air humidity is found.
In addition, different ceramic materials (Al2O3, SiC, Si3N4, ZrO2) were tested against as-deposited and polished CVD-diamond layers. Al2O3 and Si3N4 exhibit very good wear behavior accompanied by very low friction against as-deposited CVD-diamond. SiC and ZrO2, however, show somewhat inferior wear and friction behavior. Suggestions are made to explain the different performance. Again, a wear increase is found with increasing humidity. Polishing of CVD-diamond layers improves the tribological performance further.
Tribological characterisation of siliconcarbonitride ceramics derived from preceramic polymers
(2006)
Amorphous SiCN ceramics were prepared in a laboratory scale as disk shaped specimens with 10 mm diameter and 0.3 mm thickness. The friction and wear behaviour was characterised in gross slip fretting tests under unlubricated conditions at room temperature against steel (100Cr6) and ceramic (Al2O3). Tests with a ball-on-disk contact were performed in laboratory air with different content of water vapour. The results show clearly that the relative humidity has a significant effect on friction and wear behaviour. All tests in dry air lead to higher friction and higher wear rate than in normal air. Improved friction and wear behaviour was observed with increasing pyrolysis temperature up to 1100 °C of the SiCN specimens. This is attributed to increasingly better mechanical properties and higher stiffness of the amorphous network due to the evaporation of gaseous organic species and the formation of free graphite like carbon.
Diamond like carbon (DLC)-coatings are applied very successfully on computer discs. Sliding friction tests confirm their high performance as dry lubricants with friction coefficients (COFs) below 0.1. In contrast to sliding tests, until very recently most of the DLC-coatings failed in slip-rolling test after fewer cycles than uncoated samples. However, present tests with DLC-coatings of seven different suppliers show a more promising tribological behaviour under slip-rolling conditions. The DLC-coatings were deposited onto steel 100Cr6, HRC 60, with a thickness of 23 ?m. The counter bodies were uncoated, grinded or polished 100Cr6 discs with 30 mm radius of curvature. The tests were performed on a twin disc testing rig (Amsler type) with paraffin oil under boundary/mixed lubrication and rolling with 10% slip. The initial, average Hertzian contact pressure was adjusted to Pm = 1.0, 1.25, and 1.5 GPa. The failure criterion was defined as the occurrence of a single damaged area larger than 1 mm2, which was controlled by optical microscopy (OM). An acoustic emission (AE) measurement system was installed as an additional online control for coating failure. The stressed coatings and the chipping areas were analyzed by OM, SEM, EDX, AFM and Raman spectroscopy.
Until now, the results reveal that a large scatter in lifetime of coatings occurs not only between samples of different coaters but also between the samples of one single batch. The highest lifetime reached by a DLC-coating under these testing conditions is 10 × 106 cycles. That is the highest life time for a coating tested under the testing conditions above in our laboratory so far. The following factors were identified to influence the life time of the coatings: coating thickness, interlayer type, topography of the coatings, counter body roughness and mechanical properties. But the most important factor determining the life time of the coatings is that the coating process does produce homogenous layers free of faults.
Diamantähnliche Kohlenstoffschichten (DLC) zeichnen sich durch ein sehr günstiges Reibungs- und Verschleißverhalten aus. Auf vielen Werkzeugen und hochbelasteten Bauteilen ist DLC daher bereits erfolgreich im Einsatz. In naher Zukunft wird die Bedeutung dieser Schichten als Oberflächenschutz in tribologischen Systemen weiter ansteigen.
Wie viele Applikationsbeispiele zeigen, ist die Leistungsfähigkeit von DLC als Schicht zur Verringerung von Reibung und Verschleiß zwar groß, weist aber auch Grenzen auf. Vor allem bei höheren Temperaturen (> 300 °C) treten Strukturveränderungen oder sogar Oxidationsvorgänge auf, die auch die tribologischen Eigenschaften der Schichten verschlechtern können.
Reibungs- und Verschleißuntersuchungen (Schwingungsverschleiß) von DLC-Schichten wurden im Temperaturbereich von 25 °C bis 250 °C durchgeführt und zeigen ein schnelleres Durchreiben der Schicht bei höheren Temperaturen. Die Lebensdauer der Schichten wird mit zunehmender Prüftemperatur reduziert. Einsatzgrenzen für DLC-Schichten können abgeleitet werden.
Amorphous SiO2 and Si3N4 plasma-enhanced chemical vapour deposited (PECVD) coatings were deposited on two different substrate materials (fused silica and borosilicate glass), with three coating thicknesses (0.1, 0.5, and 1.0 µm). The mechanical properties (hardness and elastic modulus) were determined by depth-sensing indentation, with loads from 700 mN down to 0.1 mN. Tribological behaviour was studied in instrumented oscillating sliding tests at room temperature with a ball-on-flat arrangement, in which the coated disc was tested against an alumina ball, at a load of 1 N. Interpretation of the measurement of hardness and modulus of the coatings has to take into consideration the influence of layer thickness and the effect of the substrate. Tensile film stress and crack generation were only observed for Si3N4 on fused silica above a threshold thickness. Friction and wear measurements show that the coating has an effect on friction, while wear is affected by the thin coatings only for a short running-in phase. The morphology of the wear scars indicates that the coatings have good adhesion. Despite crack generation, delamination effects were not observed. Indentation patterns similarly showed excellent lateral homogeneity of the mechanical properties over the entire film surface, and indicated that load-displacement curves may be used to characterise the system.
The friction and wear behaviour of materials is often characterised in laboratory tests using a simple ball-on-flat configuration. From this type of test can be derived information useful in guiding the development of tribomaterials and in helping select candidate materials for specific applications. A large variety of tribotesting methods exists, and indeed several are not yet standardised. One of these methods is the oscillating sliding test, where a ball moves in relation to a disc, usually with small strokes. This method is almost non-destructive and can be applied to very small specimens. One of the most important parameters in laboratory tests is the humidity of the surrounding air. Experimental results on the friction and wear characteristics of different ceramics tested against different ball materials at room temperature in oscillating sliding contact are presented here and discussed, taking into account the effects of the test duration, relative humidity, and counterbody material.
Fundamentals of Tribotesting
(2000)
Tribology is an experiment-oriented branch of a complex, interdisciplinary science, in which testing plays a major role in the solution of technical problems, in the field as well as in the development of tribomaterials. Various test methods are used for this purpose, and the results are sensitive to the choice of test method and test conditions.
In this paper, the effects of test parameters on friction and wear results are considered, some selected results of model tests with different types of materials are presented, and guidelines are derived, that help improve the reliability and level of confidence of tribological tests performed in laboratories.