Effect of Workpiece Surface Topography on Friction in Cold Forging Using Environmentally-Friendly Lubricant

Abstract:

An optimal surface topography for the use of an environmentally friendly lubricant was elucidated, by making a wide combination of surface roughnesses Ra and RSm representing height and frequency of surface asperity, using the wet blast treatment. A forward conical can - backward straight can extruded friction test method proposed by the present authors was used. Coulomb friction coefficient was evaluated using a calibration curve representing the relationship between the surface friction coefficient of the conical punch and the front/back extrusion height of the workpiece. It was found that the surface topography of workpiece largely affects the lubricating property when the friction coefficient is large. Especially, the surface treatment with larger Ra and smaller RSm is effective for improving the friction. Furthermore, the correlation between the friction coefficient and the proposed parameter for the surface topography Ra/RSm was shown to be better than the Ra.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 767)
• Pages: 157-162
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.767.157
• Online since: April 2018
• Authors: Kunio Hayakawa, Tamotsu Nakamura
• Keywords: Cold Forging, Environmentally-Friendly Lubricant, Surface Topography, Wet Blast

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