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Polyether ether ketone (PEEK) is a high-performance thermoplastic, which is often selected for hightemperature tribological applications under chemically aggressive environments. The present work investigates the tribological behavior of a high-performance PEEK composite under conditions that are often found inside hermetic compressors. Therefore, an AMTI tribometer equipped with a hermetic chamber and a heating system was used to conduct sliding tests of PEEK cylinders on AISI 304 stainless steel polished discs (S q <10 nm) with reciprocating movement and a normal force of 175 N. The tribological behavior of the PEEK/AISI 304 stainless steel system was investigated as a function of ambient temperature (30 °C and 80 °C) and atmosphere (atmospheric air and tetrafluoroethane). Wear and surface roughness analyses were performed with white light interferometry and optical microscopy. Raman spectroscopy was used to investigate transfer films on the counter body surface. Temperature was observed to have a strong influence on the tribological behavior of the samples tested under atmospheric air, with a 25% decrease in the friction coefficient associated with a 100% increase in the wear rate. However, the friction measured from the samples tested under a tetrafluoroethane atmosphere showed no significant temperature dependence.
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A preliminary version of this work was presented at the 2nd International Brazilian Conference on Tribology-TriboBr-2014, Foz do Iguaҫu, Paraná, Brazil, 2014.
Felipe Darabas RZATKI. He received his Bachelor and M.S. degree in materials engineering from Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil, in 2010 and 2012 respectively. Currently, he is a Ph.D. student in the Materials Laboratory at the same university. His research interests include fatigue and tribology of polymeric materials.
José Daniel Biasoli DE MELLO. He is an Emeritus Professor in the College of Mechanical Engineering at the Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil and visiting professor at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil. He is also a senior researcher (level 1) of the National Research Council (CNPq), Brazil. He received his B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the Federal University of Uberlândia. In 1983, he received his Doc. Ing. degree in metallurgy from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France. He acted as Professeur Associé in the École Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et Microtechniques, Besançon, France (1990). In 1998—1999, he worked as a visiting scholar at the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, UK. In 2007 he worked as a Fulbright visiting professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. He is the director of The Tribology Technical Division of The Brazilian Society for Metals, Materials and Mining and member of the editorial board of several journals including Friction. Professor De Mello has published more than 250 full papers in proceedings of national and internationals conferences, congresses and journals. Professor De Mello’s current research are tribo-corrosion, abrasioncorrosion, surface durability of solid lubricants and tribological behaviour of sintered material.
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Rzatki, F.D., Barboza, D.V.D., Schroeder, R.M. et al. Effect of temperature and atmosphere on the tribological behavior of a polyether ether ketone composite. Friction 3, 259–265 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40544-015-0091-5
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