Microstructural Study on the Wear Behavior of Cu-TiB₂ Composites for Electrical Contact Materials

Abstract:

We have studied on the wear behavior of Cu-TiB2 composites, produced by thermal extraction, as a function of dispersed particle sizes and volume fractions of TiB2. The depth of subsurface zone was increased with applied loads from 25 μm with 20 N to 25 μm with 80 N. From the analyses results of the formation of wear debris generated by cracks between work hardened layer and matrix, wear mechanism is changed from abrasive wear to adhesive wear with increasing loads from 20 N to 80 N. The formation of sub-grains in the region of subsurface was clearly observed from the sample tested over 60 N loads. We attribute the formation of sub-grains to the plastic lubricant effect of TiB2 which gives arising from the contact stress and local heat generated during wear test.

• Periodical: Solid State Phenomena (Volumes 124-126)
• Pages: 255-258
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.124-126.255
• Online since: June 2007
• Authors: Tae Woo Lee, Chan Soo Shin, Kae Myung Kang
• Keywords: Cu-TiB₂ Composites, Subsurface Zone, Wear Behaviour, Wear Debris

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