Texture Changes of Carbon Steel and Stainless Steel as a Result of Wear

Abstract

In this research, surface texture changes of carbon steel AISI 1045 and stainless steel AISI 304 under simultaneous wear and corrosion were investigated. A solution of 3.5 % wt. NaCl was used as the corrosion agent and a pin-on-disk tribometer was employed to perform wear and corrosion wear tests.Texture investigations of the worn samples have shown texture changes after wear and corrosion-wear tests. In worn carbon steel samples after dry wear test, {011}<100> and {111} fiber texture components were developed in initially random oriented samples, whereas under corrosive-wear conditions, {111}<011> texture and {001}<110> texture were developed. In the stainless steel samples, {112}<110> texture component was observed under both dry and corrosive wear conditions, in the samples that had random grain orientations before corrosion and corrosion-wear tests.