Abstract

The damping performance of metal rubber is highly correlated with the tribological properties of the internal metal wires. In this paper, the friction and wear characteristics of 316L stainless-steel wire are investigated under different temperatures, loads, crossing angles, and working strokes. Results show that the friction coefficient increases from 0.415 to 0.635 and the wear depth increases from 34 μm to 51 μm, with the temperature rising from 20 °C to 400 °C. High temperature will soften metal materials and promote the oxidation of metal. Softened materials can be easily sheared and removed under friction action, resulting in high wear depth. However, when a continuous oxide film with high hardness is formed under higher temperature, the oxide film can work as a wear-resisting layer to prevent further wear of the wire to a certain degree. At the same temperature, the loads, crossing angles, and working strokes change the wear resistance by affecting the surface stress, debris removal efficiency, etc., and high temperature will aggravate this change. The results pave the way for the design and selection of materials for high-temperature metal rubber components.

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