Slifka, A.
, Chaudhuri, J.
, Compos, R.
and Siegwarth, J.
(1993),
A Tribometer for Measurements in Hostile Environments, Wear
(Accessed October 27, 2025)
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A Tribometer for Measurements in Hostile Environments
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Author(s)
, J Chaudhuri, ,
Abstract
A tribometer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado is used to measure the coefficient of friction and the wear rate for various specimens in a controlled atmosphere of oxygen or non-corrosive gas. The wide range of demonstrated operating temperature of 80 to 1030 K is presently unavailable in any commercial apparatus. The machine uses ball-on-flat or ring-on-flat specimen geometries for comparison of conforming and non-conforming contacts. The tribometer can be loaded to produce a hertzian contact stress in excess of 12 GPa (1.7 x 106 lbf in -2) and surface velocities from 0.06 m s-1 to 4.0 m s-1. A range of environmental conditions this wide is unusual, especially the temperature range. The apparatus is described and some test results are compared with known values.Citation
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Volume
170
Pub Type
Journals
Keywords
apparatus, cryogenic, friction, tribology, wear
Citation
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Created May 31, 1993, Updated October 12, 2021