Tribological Properties of Polyalphaolefin (PAO6) Lubricant Modified with Particles Additives of Metallic Glass
BI Jiazi, LIU Xiaobin, LI Ran(), ZHANG Tao
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
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BI Jiazi, LIU Xiaobin, LI Ran, ZHANG Tao. Tribological Properties of Polyalphaolefin (PAO6) Lubricant Modified with Particles Additives of Metallic Glass. Acta Metall Sin, 2021, 57(4): 559-566.
In mechanical systems, friction and wear lead to energy loss and machine failure. Lubricants are widely used to minimize friction and wear between moving components. Additives in lubricants significantly improve the quality of the lubricants. In recent years, nanoparticles have started to play more important roles as lubricant additives because of their ability to minimize friction and wear reduction. Despite the advantages of nanoparticles as additives, there are also some challenges to their applications. The most significant challenge is that because of the strong van der Waals force, nanoparticles aggregate in solutions. In addition, their complex process of preparation and high costs limit application in large-scale fields. Metallic glasses (MGs) with long-range disorder structure exhibit novel physical and chemical properties, e.g., high strength and hardness, high elastic limitation, high hardness/elasticity ratio, which make them potentially suitable for use as additives for lubricants. This work presents the tribological properties of friction and wear behaviors of polyalphaolefin (PAO6) oil modified with Mn55Fe25P10B7C3 MG particles at different concentrations (0~0.5%, mass fraction). Four ball tests were performed with an MMW-1A tribotester, XRD was used to examine the structure of the prepared Mn-based powders, SEM was used to observe morphologies of Mn55Fe25P10B7C3 particles and worn surfaces; OM was used to measure the wear scar diameters (WSD) and its roughness was measured with a white light interferometer (WLI). The results show a significant decrease of up to 57.1% and 15.6% for the coefficient of friction (COF) and WSD, respectively, as the addition of 0.5% MG particles in PAO6. The addition of MG particles leads to a decrease of worn surface roughness. With a high hardness/elasticity ratio and similar modulus to the friction pairs, the MG particles show a “smearing-type” wear mechanism, thus enhancing the antifriction and antiwear performance of PAO6 lubricants.
Fund: National Key Research and Development Program of China(2018YFA0703600);National Natural Science Foundation of China(51771008);Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(YWF-20-BJ-J-513)
About author: LI Ran, associate professor, Tel: (010)82316192, E-mail: liran@buaa.edu.cn
Fig.1 XRD spectra of Mn55Fe25P10B7C3 metallic glass (MG) powders passing through the test sieve of 200, 400, 600, 800, and 1000 mesh, respectively
Fig.2 SEM images with different magnifications of Mn55Fe25P10B7C3 MG powders passing through the test sieve of 1000 mesh (a-c) and the corresponding statistic histogram of the MG particle size d (d)
Fig.3 Variations of coefficient of friction vs time for PAO6 with different concentrations of Mn55Fe25P10B7C3 MG powders
Fig.4 OM images of worn scars on steel balls
Fig.5 Low (a, c) and locally high (b, d) magnified SEM images of worn surfaces of steel balls
Fig.6 WLI surface topographies of worn surfaces (a-f), worn depth (g), and roughness (Ra, RPV) of worn surfaces (h) with different concentrations of Mn55Fe25P10B7C3 MG powders (Ra—arithmetic mean deviation of roughness, RPV—maximum peak-to-valley roughness)
Fig.7 Summary of the ratio of hardness (H) to the elastic modulus (E) vs the elastic modulus of various materials
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