Abstract
Reciprocating sliding tests of ion-beam deposited (IBD) Pb–Mo–S coatings were performed with an in situ tribometer that allows real-time visualization and Raman analysis of the sliding contact through a transparent hemisphere. Experiments were performed in dry air, ambient air (∼50% RH) and mixtures of dry and humid air cycled between low and high humidity. Third bodies formed in the sliding contact were monitored through an optical microscope and analyzed by Raman Spectroscopy. Third body velocity accommodation modes were identified and correlated with friction behavior in dry and ambient air. The dominant velocity accommodation mode in both dry and humid air was interfacial sliding between the outer surface of the transfer film and the wear track; this interface, based on present and earlier studies, is crystalline MoS2. Therefore, the friction coefficient was controlled by the interfacial shear strength of MoS2 sliding against MoS2. Humid air sliding was accompanied by a rise in the friction coefficient and a small but observable second velocity accommodation mode: shear/extrusion of the transfer film. It is concluded that the friction rise in humid air was due to an increase in the interfacial shear strength, and that the rise in friction caused the third body to deform rather than the deformation causing the friction to rise.
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