Design of a Tester for In Situ Simultaneous Measurement of the Wear of Two Different Film Materials

Abstract

The amount of wear is one of the most important indicators for assessing the wear resistance of materials, controlling product quality and studying the mechanisms of frictional wear of materials. Due to the limitations of the friction and wear test equipment currently in use for measuring material wear resistance, it is not possible to accurately compare the wear resistance of two different materials. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a new type of friction and wear tester. With the newly designed friction and wear tester, it is possible to perform friction tests and in situ measurements of wear on two different materials at the same time. This will significantly reduce the measurement errors of currently used friction and wear test equipment that requires adjustment in order to measure the amount of wear; it is particularly suitable for accurately comparing the wear resistance of two different materials. The newly designed friction and wear tester can be used extensively to test and analyse the wear resistance of solid materials such as metals, ceramic materials and engineering plastics.