International Scientific Journals
of Scientific Technical Union of Mechanical Engineering "Industry 4.0"

The conditions are substantiated for the loss of thermodynamic stability of a tribosystem and for its adaptation with a decreasing wear rate at the moving frictional contact of parts from materials with an ultrafine-grained structure produced by equal-channel angular pressing. The regularities of the influence of the structure’s dispersion degree and the friction contact’s temperature on the tribotechnical characteristics of ultrafine-grained materials are established theoretically and experimentally.

With the use of computer modeling in the environment of the DEFORM-3D software, a virtual full factorial experiment has been conducted for the processing of commercially pure titanium by equal-channel angular pressing (ECAP) via the Conform scheme. In the course of the modeling, the effect of independent parameters (the rotation velocity of the working wheel, the friction factor on the lateral surfaces of the working wheel and the friction factor between the billet and the die) has been evaluated. As a result of the experiment, a regression equation has been obtained and the most important individual factors and their mutual combinations that influence the response parameter (strain intensity) have been identified.