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Sliding wear behavior of plasma nitrided Austenitic Stainless Steel Type AISI 316LN in the temperature range from 25 to 400 degrees C at 10(-4) bar

Devaraju, A and Perumal, Elaya A and Alphonsa, J and Kailas, Satish V and Venugopal, S (2012) Sliding wear behavior of plasma nitrided Austenitic Stainless Steel Type AISI 316LN in the temperature range from 25 to 400 degrees C at 10(-4) bar. In: WEAR, 288 . pp. 17-26.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wear.2012.03.002

Abstract

There is a research knowledge gap for the dry wear data of nitride treated Stainless Steel in high temperature and high vacuum environment. In order to fill this gap, plasma nitriding was done on austenitic Stainless Steel type AISI 316LN (316LN SS) and dry sliding wear tests have been conducted at 25 degrees C, 200 degrees C and 400 degrees C in high vacuum of 1.6 x 10(-4) bar. The two different slider material (316LN SS and Colmonoy) and two different sliding speeds (0.0576 m/s and 0.167 m/s) have been used. The tribological parameters such as friction coefficient, wear mechanism and volume of metal loss have been evaluated. Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) was used to study the surface morphology of the worn pins and rings. Electronic balancing machine was used to record the mass of metal loss during wear tests. The 2D optical profilometer was used to measure the depth of the wear track. The Plasma Nitride treated 316LN SS rings (PN rings) exhibit excellent wear resistance against 316LN SS pin and Colmonoy pin at all temperatures. However, PN ring vs. Colmonoy pin Pair shows better wear resistance than PN ring vs. 316LN SS pin Pair at higher temperature. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Item Type: Journal Article
Publication: WEAR
Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
Additional Information: Copyright for this article belongs to Elsevier B.V.
Keywords: Steel;Wear testing;High temperature;High vacuum;Space
Department/Centre: Division of Mechanical Sciences > Mechanical Engineering
Date Deposited: 14 Jul 2012 07:58
Last Modified: 14 Jul 2012 08:00
URI: http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/44809

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