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Wear Behavior of Medium Carbon Steel with Biomimetic Surface Under Starved Lubricated Conditions

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Friction and wear under starved lubrication condition are both key life-related factors for mechanical performance of many structural parts. In this paper, different surface morphologies on medium carbon steel were fabricated using laser, inspired by the surface coupling effect of biological system. The friction and sliding wear behaviors of biomimetic specimens (characterized by convex and concave units on the specimen surface) were studied under starved lubrication condition. The stress distribution on different sliding surfaces under sliding friction was studied using finite element method. The results showed that the tribological performance of studied surfaces under starved lubrication condition depended not only on the surface morphology but also on the structure of biomimetic units below surface (subsurface structure). The friction coefficient of biomimetic surface was effectively reduced by the concave unit depth, while the refined microstructure with higher hardness led to the much better wear resistance. In addition to lubricant reserving and wear debris trapping effect derived from the surface concave morphology, it was believed that the well-formed subsurface structure of biomimetic units could carry much heavy loads against tribopair, which enhanced the function of surface topography and resulted in complementary lubrication in the wear contact area. The uniform stress distribution on the entire biomimetic surface also played an important role in stabilizing the friction coefficient and reducing the wear cracks.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. U1601203, 51675223 and 51375204) and the Pearl River S&T Nova Program of Guangzhou (No. 2014J2200095).

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  1. The Key Laboratory of Bionic Engineering (Ministry of Education, China), Jilin University, 5988 Renmin Street, Changchun, 130025, People’s Republic of China

    Zhihui Zhang, Feixian Shao, Yunhong Liang, Pengyu Lin & Luquan Ren

  2. State Key Laboratory of Automotive Simulation and Control, Jilin University, Changchun, 130025, People’s Republic of China

    Zhihui Zhang & Yunhong Liang

  3. The National Engineering Laboratory for Modern Materials Surface Engineering Technology, Guangzhou Research Institute of Non-ferrous Metals, Guangzhou, 510651, People’s Republic of China

    Xin Tong

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Zhang, Z., Shao, F., Liang, Y. et al. Wear Behavior of Medium Carbon Steel with Biomimetic Surface Under Starved Lubricated Conditions. J. of Materi Eng and Perform 26, 3420–3430 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11665-017-2607-9

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