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ABSTRACT
The Powder Metallurgy (PM) technique allows manufacturing the sintered self-
lubricating materials having a high wear resistance. It is well known that the small
and medium sized bearings are processed by PM with better characteristics than
those obtained by casting technology. The tested materials are Cu-based ones having
Sn, Zn and Pb as alloying elements in order to improve the tribological properties.
These alloys are designed to be used for manufacturing self-lubricating bearings. The
alloy compositions have been obtained by PM route, by cold die compacting, using
different pressures. The sintering atmosphere was vacuum.
The DSC is a thermo-analytical method, which allows, by measuring the
temperature difference between the sample and a reference, a quantitative
measurement of the heat flow difference when the sample and the reference are
submitted to the same temperature program.
The wear test was performed for four ring samples with a ball pin and the test
atmosphere was vacuum and normal air.
550 620
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400 450
350
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200 250
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Time [min]
Fig. 1. Sintering cycle for vacuum and hydrogen atmosphere. T = 815°C, heating velocity = 5°C/min.
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During the wear test there are covered all three 2.000
1.400 1.00E+03
1.200
1.00E+02
0.600 1.00E+00
0.400
1.00E-01
0.200
1.00E-02
0.000 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400Distance
450 500[m]
0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 Distance
450 500 [m]
Fig. 5. Calibrated mean wear rate and calibrated
Fig. 2. Linear wear for the ring sample sintered at mean volume for the ring sample sintered at 815°C
815°C and tested in vacuum and tested in air
1.00E+04 1.200
1.00E+02
L in e a r we a r [m m ]
0.800 Calibrated-Mean
Wear
1.00E+01
0.600
1.00E+00
0.400
1.00E-01
0.200
1.00E-02
0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 Distance
450 500 [m] 0.000
0 50 100 150 200 250 300 Distance400
350 [m]
Fig. 3. Calibrated mean wear rate and calibrate mean
volume for the ring sample sintered at 815°C and Fig. 6. Linear wear for the ring sample sintered at
tested in vacuum 805°C and tested in air
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1.00E+04
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[mm³/nm]
Calibrated-Mean volume mm³
Wiley & Sons, New York.
2. Isler P.A., Nicolle J., 2001, Materiaux and Techniques, pp.
1.00E+02
10-11.
3. Teisanu C., Gheorghe St., Ciupitu I., 2005, Hardness
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