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Influence of Cryogenic Treatments on the Wear Behavior of AISI 420 Martensitic Stainless Steel

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The objective of the present work is to characterize the wear behavior of a cryogenically treated low-carbon AISI 420 martensitic stainless steel, by means of ball-on-disk tribological tests. Wear tests were performed under a range of applied normal loads and in two different environments, namely a petrolatum bath and an argon atmosphere. Wear tracks were analyzed by both optical and scanning electron microscopy and Raman spectroscopy to evaluate wear volume, track geometry, surface features and the tribolayers generated after testing. This paper is an extension of the work originally reported in the VIII Iberian Conference of Tribology (Prieto and Tuckart, in: Ballest Jiménez, Rodríguez Espinosa, Serrano Saurín, Pardilla Arias, Olivares Bermúdez (eds) VIII Iberian conference of tribology, Cartagena, 2015). In this study, it has been experimentally demonstrated that cryogenically treated specimens showed a wear resistance improvement ranging from 35 to 90% compared to conventionally treated ones.

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The authors wish to express their appreciation to the Engineering Department of Universidad Nacional del Sur and CONICET for the financial support given for this article and to the National Agency of Promotion of Science and Technology (ANPCyT) for the Grant PICT 2013-0616.

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Prieto, G., Tuckart, W.R. Influence of Cryogenic Treatments on the Wear Behavior of AISI 420 Martensitic Stainless Steel. J. of Materi Eng and Perform 26, 5262–5271 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11665-017-2986-y

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