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Influence of Ni content on arc erosion behavior of Ag/Ni electrical contact materials

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Arc erosion behavior of Ag/Ni electrical contact materials with different Ni content under 50,000 operation numbers was investigated used by 3DOP, SEM and EPMA. The results indicated that the arc erosion of Ag/Ni electrical contact materials fabricated by sintering-extrusion technology was more and more serious with the Ni content increase from 10 to 20 wt %. There were arc erosion craters on anode and arc erosion convex peaks on cathode, and the arc erosion area decreased with the increase of Ni content. The micro-morphology characteristic of arc erosion was slightly different due to the different Ni content. Layer-like distribution of elements Ni and Ag was found on cathode of Ag/15Ni and Ag/20Ni, which was resulted from the difference of physical properties between Ag and Ni and the limited solubility of Ni in liquid state Ag.

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This work was supported by the Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 2022JJ30739) and by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51601225). The authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose.

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    Runzhang Huang, Guofu Xu, Qiong Wu, Lejian Yu & Chunping Wu

  2. Key Laboratory of Nonferrous Materials Science and Engineering of Ministry of Education, Central South University, Hunan, 410083, Changsha, China

    Guofu Xu & Chunping Wu

  3. Zhejiang Songfa Composite New Material Co, LTD, Jiaxing, 314200, China

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Huang, R., Xu, G., Zhao, C. et al. Influence of Ni content on arc erosion behavior of Ag/Ni electrical contact materials. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 34, 1053 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-023-10357-2

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