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Effect of Martensite Morphology on Tribological Behaviour of a Low-Alloy Steel

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Few works are devoted to study the microstructure effect on tribological behaviors of contacting materials. The most of them are only focused on wear and without fixing the hardness and/or the chemical composition. A contribution is proposed by investigating the combined effects of microstructure and abrasive particle size. Friction tests are performed for steel pins characterized by various microstructures with similar hardness level (around 410 \( {H_{\text{V}}} \)) and chemical composition. The microstructures are composed of a quenched martensitic microstructure, a tempered martensitic microstructure, and ferrite–martensite dual-phase microstructures with various martensite colony morphologies. These pins slide against abrasive papers with various particle sizes, from 15 to 200 μm, under different normal loads from 50 to 110 N. Dual-phase microstructures enhance friction and wear behaviors. Among these microstructures, compared to fine and fibrous martensite colony morphologies, coarse and equiaxed martensite colonies minimize friction coefficient and wear rate. It is worth noting that for a given load, a transition in friction behavior is observed for a critical particle size (CPS) which depends on microstructure and normal load. This study also showed that whatever the microstructure and the abrasive particle sizes, friction coefficients decrease with increasing normal load. However, for wear rate, a reverse trend is observed.

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Trevisiol, C., Jourani, A. & Bouvier, S. Effect of Martensite Morphology on Tribological Behaviour of a Low-Alloy Steel. Metallogr. Microstruct. Anal. 8, 123–134 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13632-018-0503-9

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