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Effect of textured surfaces created by modulation-assisted machining on the Stribeck curve and wear properties of steel-aluminum contact

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Loss of machining efficiency, part repair, and replacement of mechanical components due to friction and wear is a recurring problem for performance industrial system applications. Recent studies on surface modification and micro-scale texturing have shown successful results in reducing friction and wear of lubricated surfaces. By acting as lubricant reservoirs and wear particle receptacles, micro-scale artificial surface textures positively influence lubrication regimes. In the present experimental study, a Stribeck curve is generated to compare the tribological properties of untextured and textured surfaces created by modulation-assisted machining. Aluminum 6061-T6 disks are mated with high-speed steel pins on a pin-on-disk tribometer configuration for varying speed and texture depth and density. The results suggest that the textured surfaces produced by modulation-assisted machining accelerate the appearance of the elasto-hydrodynamic regime, while also reducing friction by 56% and wear by almost 90%. The enhanced friction and wear reduction were obtained under the lower speeds studied. In general, the disk with shallower dimples presented lower values of friction under the conditions studied. No major differences were found for textures with different dimple densities.

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This study received financial support from the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Rochester Institute of Technology and from NSF grants CMMI 1130852 and 1254818.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, 72 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY, USA

    Paarth Mehta & Patricia Iglesias

  2. George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 801 Ferst Dr, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ryan Liu & Christopher Saldana

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of West Florida, 11000 University Parkway, Pensacola, FL, USA

    James B. Mann

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Mehta, P., Liu, R., Mann, J.B. et al. Effect of textured surfaces created by modulation-assisted machining on the Stribeck curve and wear properties of steel-aluminum contact. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 99, 399–409 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-018-2523-7

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