TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT EFFECT OF BORIC ACID ADDITIVE ON SURFACE ROUGHNESS AND WEAR RATE

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2017

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WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD

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info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess

Özet

Wear and friction hold an important place in engineering. Currently, scientific societies are struggling to control wear by means of studies on lubricants. Boric acid constitutes an important alternative with its good tribological properties similar to MO2S and graphite alongside with low environmental impacts. Boric acid can be used as a solid lubricant itself whereas it can be added or blended into mineral oils in order to yield better mechanical and tribological properties such as low shear stress due to the lamellar structure and low friction, wear and surface roughness rates. In this study, distinguishing from the literature, boric acid addition effect considering the temperature was investigated for the conventional ranges of internal combustion engines. Surface roughness, wear and friction coefficient values were used in order to determine tribological properties of boric acid as an environmentally friendly additive and mineral oil mixture in the present study. Wear experiments were conducted with a ball on disc experimental setup immersed in an oil reservoir at room temperature, 50 degrees C and 80 degrees C. The evolution of both the friction coefficient and wear behavior was determined under 10 N load, at 2 m/s sliding velocity and a total sliding distance of 9000 m. Surface roughness was determined using atomic-force microscopy (AFM). Wear rate was calculated utilizing scanning electron microscope (SEM) visuals and data. The test results showed that wear resistance increased as the temperature increased, and friction coefficient decreased due to the presence of boric acid additive.

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Atomic-force microscopy, boric acid, lubricant, surface roughness, wear

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SURFACE REVIEW AND LETTERS

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Q4

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Q3

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24

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