Running-In of DLC–Third Body or Transfer Film Formation

Autor: Joachim Faller, Matthias Scherge
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Lubricants, Vol 12, Iss 9, p 314 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2075-4442
DOI: 10.3390/lubricants12090314
Popis: Amorphous carbon coatings are widely used due to their beneficial friction and wear characteristics. A detailed understanding of their behavior during running-in, apart from model tribosystems, has yet to be obtained. Multiple analytical methods were used to detect the physical and chemical changes in a ta-C coating and its thermally sprayed, metallic counterpart after a running-in procedure with pin-on-disk experiments. Both coatings exhibited changes in their surface and near-surface chemistry. The mechanisms in and on the metallic coating were identified to be a mixture of the third-body type, with the formation of gradients in the microstructure and chemistry and an additional carbon-rich tribofilm formation on top. The ta-C coating’s changes in chemistry with sp2 enrichment and lubricant element inclusions proved to be too complex to allocate them to tribofilm or third-body formation.
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