Abstract

In this paper the laboratory tests on the selected steel for cementation 20MnCr5 was perfomed. The influence of the contact load resistance to the adhesion wear of high-temperature carbonitrided MnCr steels was analyzed. As a representative example was selected a tribosystem drive/driven gear of reducers in which are expressed high contact loads. For the purposes of these tests, the samples were first high-temperature carbonitrided, and then they are carried to the appropriate chemical and metallographic analysis, control of the surface hardnesses and the resistance to the adhesion wear. The aim of this paper was to observe the representative tribosystem as much possible to define its working parameters in order to determine the optimum conditions for testing the influence of the contact load on resistance to the adhesion wear. The analysis results show that high-temperature carbonitrided steel where the atmosphere of furnace at the beginning of carburizing was enriched with nitrogen, and finally with carbon showed significantly greater resistance to the adhesion wear compared to steel that at the beginning of carburizing had atmosphere of furnace rich in carbon, and finally with nitrogen.