COMMERCIALLY PURE COPPER AND LOW-ALLOYED CHROME BRONZE IN TRIBOLOGICAL CONTACT WITH GRAPHITIFEROUS MATERIAL
- 1 Institute of Oil and Gas Technologies and New Materials. Ufa State Aviation Technical University, Ufa, Russia
- 2 Ufa State Aviation Technical University, Ufa, Russia
- 3 National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan
- 4 BS Abdur Rahman University, Chennai, India
Abstract
This work presented the results of tribological studies of commercially pure copper (Cu 99.9%) and low-alloyed chrome bronze Cu-1%Cr in contact with a graphitiferous plate EK-40. Samples from copper and copper alloy were prepared to obtain two kinds of grain size of microstructure. Two schemes were used for tribological studies. The first scheme was used during reciprocal movement to evaluate the friction coefficient. The second scheme was employed to evaluate the shear strength of adhesive bonds and the adhesive component of the friction coefficient.Besides, the fulfilled studies determined that the tribological properties of materials depended on the grain size of microstructure. It is shown that an ECAP–Conformed specimen with UFG exhibits 20-30% lower friction coefficients than that of annealed specimen with CG structure. The tribological test results showed that the coefficient of friction decreased, with the decreasing grain size. Therefore, were conclude the coefficient of friction of proposed materials is microstructure-sensitive.