Surface Topography Characterization in Steel Running-in Process of Dry Sliding Friction

Abstract

Running-in is an important and inevitable wear process for machine system, and it plays an indispensable role in extending service life and improving operating performance. Surface topography appears as a significant feature of friction pairs. Therefore, study on modification of surface topography in running-in is crucial to control surface quality and then achieve improvement of machine system. In this paper, to understand the evolution of surface topography in running-in process, steel dry sliding running-in experiments were conducted, and surface topographies in running-in were evaluated with the areal surface evaluation parameters. The results reveal that surface topography evaluation could provide valuable information about wear status of steel running-in process of dry sliding friction, amplitude parameters, area and volume parameters, and hybrid parameters play different and important roles in characterization of surface topography modification in running-in.