Study on the High-Heat Tribological Characteristics of Lubricating Wear-Resisting Coating Prepared by Supersonic Plasma Spraying

Abstract

This paper is about the study of the KF301/WS2composite lubrication wear-resisting coatings prepared by supersonic plasma spraying. Basing on the research of the tribological characteristics, it has been discussed the self-lubricity and the failure mechanism showed by composite lubrication coatings under high-temperature conditions. Research shows that the wear rate of the coatings increased with the increase of the temperature. At 300°C, the wear rate is 1.02×10-4mg/m; At 750°C, the wear rate is 2.61×10-4mg/m. With the increase of temperature, friction coefficient of the coatings shows gradually increasing. When the temperature falls below 600°C, friction coefficient keeps around 0.08; At 750°C, the friction coefficient is 0.12. Temperature has great effect on the friction and wear properties ofthe self-lubricating wear-resisting coatings, mainly manifests in two aspects: first, with the increase of the temperature, under the common influence of thermal stress and frictional contact stress, it promotes the WS2solid lubricant film cracking, breakage, shedding process, and lubrication and abrasive resistance reduces; on the other hand, the WS2occurs chemical reaction under high temperature, generating lubricity phase of NiWO4, CrS, and lubricity phases are well supplied, lubricating film has an effect of continuous lubrication on the rubbing surface, So the coating shows low-friction, and it also represents that the KF-301/ WS2self-lubricating composite coating has good lubrication and abrasive resistance under high temperature．