Abstract
Due to their high antifriction characteristics, the Sn-Sb-Cu alloys (referred to as babbits) are widely used to coat sliding bearings. However, some limitations of the present techniques for applying such coating materials cause a decrease in their fatigue strength because of the reinforcing phase particles growth. As a technique for restricting the increasing of the reinforcing particle sizes, this paper proposes plasma surface cladding with multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) as modifiers. The dry sliding friction tests performed according to the “pin-on-disk” scheme using as a counterface a steel 100Cr6 (DIN 17230) disk have shown that adding to the coating 0.25%wt of CNTs significantly improves the friction stability (the coefficient of friction process stability decreases twice with reducing the friction coefficient and wear resistance by 5% on the average). An attempt to reveal the mechanism for the MWNT influence on the structure and performance of the babbit-based coatings was undertaken. Studies of the coatings metal structure by soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy and also by the metallographic and fractographic analysis involving electron-microscopy have shown that MWNTs remain stable during plasma cladding process and save into the coating.
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