Study on the Wear and Abrasion Effect of Metal Nano-Coating Plug Connectors Under Atmospheric Corrosion Conditions

Abstract

The plug connector is the most widely used type of separable connector; however, the sliding friction that occurs during the plug-in process causes wear and wiping effects. Wear is a form of damage that occurs to the anti-corrosion coating during the sliding process, and wiping refers to the cleaning effect of corrosion products during the sliding process. Both have negative and positive effects on electrical contact reliability in corrosive environments. Therefore, wear and wiping are key factors in studying the life and reliability of connectors in atmospheric corrosion environments. Atmospheric corrosion is the main mechanism leading to connector contact failure. There have been many related studies on simple connector atmospheric corrosion, but research on the influence of wear and wipe on atmospheric corrosion and the influence of contact resistance degradation is still not comprehensive. To study the influence of wear and wiping on contact reliability during the plug connector-mating process, this work evaluates the metal nano-coating connector plugging process as the object, and the contact resistance degradation model under atmospheric corrosion as the basis, and the effect of wear and wiping on corrosion degradation as the research tool. Ultimately, the influence of wear and wiping on contact resistance is studied in detail. Finally, combined with the actual usage of the plug-in connector, the contact reliability of metal nano-coating plug connectors under the action of abrasion and wiping is studied.