Research paper

Influence of adding carbon nanotubes and graphite to Ag-MoS2 composites on the electrical sliding wear properties

  • LI Shu ,
  • FENG Yi ,
  • YANG Qian-Ting
Expand
  • Department of Material Science and Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China

Received date: 2009-03-20

  Revised date: 2009-06-25

  Online published: 2010-02-09

Abstract

Silver matrix composite brushes were fabricated by means of powder metallurgy, which included pressing at 300 MPa and then sintering for 1 h in pure H2 protective atmosphere at 700 ℃ and repressing at 500 MPa. Four kinds composites with different compositions were produced, and the mechanical properties and electrical wear performance were investigated. The results showed that the composite added with carbon nanotubes had a higher hardness and strength, a lower contact voltage drop and an excellent anti-wear property in electrical sliding wear, because of the reinforcement ability of carbon nanotubes. Adding graphite to the composite also decreased the wear loss and contact voltage drop, because graphite had an electrical current conducting ability which not only made the current pass the lubricating films easily but also eliminated and reduced the arc and spark effectively.

Cite this article

LI Shu , FENG Yi , YANG Qian-Ting . Influence of adding carbon nanotubes and graphite to Ag-MoS2 composites on the electrical sliding wear properties[J]. Acta Metallurgica Sinica (English Letters), 2010 , 23(1) : 27 -34 . DOI: 10.11890/1006-7191-101-27

References

[1] J. Wang, Y. Feng, S. Li and S. Lin,  Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China (English Edition) 19(1)  (2009) 113.
[2] K.W. Ng, H.C. Man and F.T. Cheng,  Appl Surf Sci  253(14-15)  ( 2007) 6236.
[3] S. Li, Y. Feng, S.X. Chen, Y.J. Xie and J. Wang,  J Funct Mater  39(7)  (2008) 1111.
[4] M. Kawakame and J.D. Berssan,  J Mater Proc Technol  179(1-3)  (2006) 74.
[5] Y. Feng, M. Zhang and Y. Xu,  Carbon  43  (2005) 2685.
[6] I. Yasar, A. Canakci and F. Arslan,  Tribology Int  40(9)  (2007) 1381.
[7] C. Donnet and A. Erdemir,  Surf Coat Technol  180-181 (2004) 76.
[8] C.C. Baker, R.R. Chromik, K.J. Wahl, J.J. Hu and A.A.Voevodin,  Thin Solid Films  515(17)  (2007) 6737.
[9] K.C. Wong, X. Lu, J. Cotter, D.T. Eadie, P.C. Wong and K.A.R. Mitchell,  Wear  264(7-8)  (2008) 526.
[10] F. Rapoport, A. Moshkovich, V. Perfilyev, I. Lapsker, G.Halperin, Y. Itovich and I. Etsion,  Surf Coat Technol  202(14)  (2008) 3332.
[11] H.D. Wang, B.S. Xu, J.J. Liu and D.M. Zhuang,  Surf Coat Technol  201(15)  (2007) 6719.
[12] X.C. Ma, G.Q. He, D.H. He, C.S. Chen and Z.F. Hu,  Wear 265(7-8)  (2008) 1087.
[13] J.F. Dai, Q. Wang, W.X. Li, Z.Q. Wei and G.J. Xu,  Acta Metall Sin (Engl Lett)  18(3)  (2005) 261.
[14] P.C. Ma, B.Z. Tang and J.K. Kim,  Carbon  46(11) (2008) 1497.

Outlines

/