Abstract
Abstract Topographical features on sliding contact surfaces are known to have a significant impact on friction and wear. Indeed, various forms of surface texturing are being used to improve and/or control the tribological performance of sliding surfaces. In this paper, the effect of random surface texturing produced by a mechanical impact process is studied for friction and wear behavior of 304L stainless steel (SS) under dry and marginal oil lubrication. The surface processing was applied to 304L SS flat specimens and tested under reciprocating ball-on-flat sliding contact, with a 440C stainless steel ball. Under dry contact, the impact textured surface exhibited two order of magnitude lower wear than the isotropically ground surface of the same material. After 1500 s of sliding and wearing through of the processed surface layer following occurring of scuffing, the impact textured surface underwent a transition in wear and friction behavior. Under marginal oil lubrication, however, no such transition occurred, and the wear for the impact textured surface was consistently two orders of magnitude lower than that for the ground material. Mechanisms for the tribological performance enhancement are proposed.
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