Tribological behavior of tribo-pairs in water hydraulic radial piston pumps

Abstract

Friction and wear tests were performed on five Cu-based materials and three polyether ether ketone (PEEK)-based composites sliding against 17-4PH and 42CrMo4 coated with tungsten carbide-reinforced Ni-based coating. Two types of pin-on-disk specimens were used to represent the slipper/eccentric drive and piston/sleeve gap seal tribo-pairs in water hydraulic radial piston pumps. The experimental results showed that the QSn8-0.3 slipper material exhibited the highest steady-state friction coefficients for sliding against both 17-4PH (0.156) and coated-42CrMo4 (0.894). Glass fiber-reinforced PEEK exhibited the highest steady-state friction coefficients for sliding against the two specimens (0.540 and 0.420). The ZCuPb15Sn8/17-4PH showed the highest wear rate for the representative slipper/eccentric drive tribo-pair (26.86 × 10⁻⁶ mm/Nm); glass fiber-reinforced PEEK/17-4PH showed the highest wear rate for the representative piston/sleeve gap seal tribo-pair (46.91 × 10⁻⁶mm/Nm). The wear mechanisms of the two types of tribo-pairs were characterized through scanning electron microscopy, profilometry, and energy-dispersive spectroscopy analyses. Furthermore, the effects of hardness, pv values, coating, and reinforcement on the tribological behavior of the two types of tribo-pairs were analyzed.

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Water hydraulic radial piston pump tribo-pairs friction and wear tests glass fiber–reinforced polyether ether ketone 17-4PH

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