Ceramics Lubrication

Published

July 1, 2003

Author(s)

Stephen M. Hsu, Richard S. Gates, D E. Deckman

Abstract

ramics are hard, brittle, and chemically inert under most environments. They wear by abrasion and fracture. Since brittle fracture is very sensitive to stress intensity factors, ceramic wear is dominated by stress intensity at various scales. Under mild wear regime, asperity stresses cause intergranular cracking leading to grain pull-out and substrate fatigue process from repeated cycles of stresses. Since ceramics are hard, the wear particles are relatively hard and large as contrasted with wear debris in the metal systems. This eventually introduces large third bodies in the contact. The presence of third bodies intensifies the stress intensity and more fractures take place. Wear transitions occur.

Proceedings Title

International Ceramics Congress | 10th | | Techna

Volume

30

Conference Dates

July 1, 2002

Conference Location

Florence, IT

Conference Title

Advances in Science and Technology

Pub Type

Conferences

Keywords

alcohols, boundary films, ceramics, lubrication, phosphorus chemistry, sulfur chemistry

Citation

Hsu, S. , Gates, R. and Deckman, D. (2003), Ceramics Lubrication, International Ceramics Congress | 10th | | Techna, Florence, IT (Accessed October 14, 2025)