Abstract
Commonly used austenitic stainless steels (ASSs) have some limitation in sliding wear conditions due to their relatively low yield strength and hardness. To improve the wear resistance, three kinds of microstructure (coarse grain (CG), heterogeneous structure (HS), and ultrafine grain (UFG)) are prepared, to investigate the grain size on the dry sliding tribological behavior, as well as wear mechanisms of Fe-18Cr-8Ni ASSs at room temperature (RT) and cryogenic temperature (−120 °C). The results indicate that at RT the UFG specimen exhibits the lowest wear rate during the wear tests, where the wear mechanisms are mainly oxidation wear and abrasive wear. While, when tested at −120 °C, the CG specimen exhibits the best wear resistance compared with that of the other two specimens due to its superior plastic deformation ability and strain hardening ability. Moreover, the HS specimen exhibits the lowest coefficient of friction (CoF), which is due to the abrasive particles generated on the contact surface provide a certain level of friction reduction, while the wear rate increases as these particles serve as third-party abrasives, which further removing material.
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