Journal
TRIBOLOGY LETTERS
Volume 37, Issue 2, Pages 431-443Publisher
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/s11249-009-9539-y
Keywords
Titanium; Steel; Ruby; Imidazolium ionic liquids; Lubrication; High temperature; Tribocorrosion; Surface interactions
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- MICINN (Spain)
- EU [MAT2008-01670]
- Programa de Generacion de Conocimiento Cientifico de Excelencia de la Fundacion Seneca de la Region de Murcia [08596/PI/08]
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The tribological behaviour and surface interactions of titanium sliding against AISI 52100 steel have been studied at 200 and 300 A degrees C in the presence of two commercial imidazolium room temperature ionic liquid (ILs): 1-octyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate (L108) and 1-hexyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate (LP106). L108 presents the higher thermal stability but gives higher friction coefficients and wear rates than LP106, with long running-in periods and high friction values, both at 200 and 300 A degrees C. Friction and wear rates for LP106 are lower and decrease as the temperature increases from 25 to 200 A degrees C. At 200 A degrees C, LP106 shows a constant friction coefficient, without running-in, produces a mild wear on titanium and no surface damage on steel. LP106 fails at 300 A degrees C, close to its degradation temperature, due to tribochemical decomposition through partial dissociation of the hexafluorophosphate anion, with formation of a phosphorus-rich layer on the steel ball, while the titanium wear track surface is heterogeneous, showing regions with the presence of fluoride and others with the presence of phosphate. When the steel ball is substituted for a ruby sphere under the same conditions at 300 A degrees C, a low friction coefficient and mild wear is observed, due to the higher stability of the LP106 lubricant at the ruby-titanium interface. The friction coefficients, wear mechanisms and surface interactions have been studied by means of friction-distance records, SEM, EDX and XPS.
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