Effect of Groove Width on Micromachine Groove Texture Tribology Characteristics of 0Cr17Ni7Al

Abstract

Friction and wear are the main forms of material surface failure. Surface modification is very effective in friction reduction and wear resistance systems. Therefore, as a method of surface modification to improve the tribological properties of materials, surface texture has been widely loved by scholars. However, most scholars use laser and other processing methods to prepare the surface texture. Although these processing methods have a high preparation efficiency, they cannot obtain a surface texture with high dimensional accuracy due to their non-contact processing characteristics. Moreover, previous studies on different surface texture preparation methods are insufficient. Scholars have not fully studied the size parameters of surface modification. Micromachining is a contact machining method. It has high dimensional accuracy. Therefore, the surface groove texture of 0Cr17Ni7Al material commonly used in sliding bearings was prepared by micromachining in this paper. Under dry friction conditions, the effects of different groove widths on the tribological properties of surface texture were studied. The results show that the friction coefficient at the 0.6 mm-wide groove texture is the lowest, σ = 0.632. The minimum wear rate is ω = 3.351 × 10−4 mm3/(N·mm). The friction coefficient and wear rate of all groove textures are lower than those of untextured surfaces. It can be judged that the groove texture prepared by micromachining has good friction reduction and wear resistance under the same load, time, and linear speed. With the increase of the groove width, the friction coefficient and wear rate of groove texture decrease first and then increase.