TY - JOUR
T1 - Surface engineering of Timet 550 with oxygen to form a rutile-based, wear-resistant coating
AU - Boettcher, Carl
AU - Bell, Thomas
AU - Dong, Hanshan
PY - 2002/4/1
Y1 - 2002/4/1
N2 - Recently, a thermal oxidation (TO) technique has been successfully developed and applied to the titanium alloy Ti-6Al-4V This TO technique produces a thin, hard, rutile-based, wear-resistant coating on the surface of the titanium alloy, thus significantly improving the tribological properties of the titanium alloy. In the present investigation, the same principle has been applied to the alpha + beta high-strength titanium alloy Timet 550. A series of TO treatments have been carried out in air within the temperature range of 600 degreesC to 650 degreesC. This developed a rutile-based coating which greatly improved the tribological properties of Timet 550. Systematic characterization of the TO-treated surface was carried out using glow-discharge optical emission spectroscopy (GDS), X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and high-resolution scanning electron microscopy (HR-SEM) techniques. Ball-on-disc friction testing was used to show the improvement in tribological properties for Timet 550 when TO treated. The sliding wear resistance of the TO treatment was investigated using an Amsler wear tester, utilizing a counterformal block-on-wheel configuration; the TO-treated Timet 550 was run against a carburized S156 steel with splash oil lubrication. It was found that the wear resistance of the TO-treated Timet 550 was greatly improved.
AB - Recently, a thermal oxidation (TO) technique has been successfully developed and applied to the titanium alloy Ti-6Al-4V This TO technique produces a thin, hard, rutile-based, wear-resistant coating on the surface of the titanium alloy, thus significantly improving the tribological properties of the titanium alloy. In the present investigation, the same principle has been applied to the alpha + beta high-strength titanium alloy Timet 550. A series of TO treatments have been carried out in air within the temperature range of 600 degreesC to 650 degreesC. This developed a rutile-based coating which greatly improved the tribological properties of Timet 550. Systematic characterization of the TO-treated surface was carried out using glow-discharge optical emission spectroscopy (GDS), X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and high-resolution scanning electron microscopy (HR-SEM) techniques. Ball-on-disc friction testing was used to show the improvement in tribological properties for Timet 550 when TO treated. The sliding wear resistance of the TO treatment was investigated using an Amsler wear tester, utilizing a counterformal block-on-wheel configuration; the TO-treated Timet 550 was run against a carburized S156 steel with splash oil lubrication. It was found that the wear resistance of the TO-treated Timet 550 was greatly improved.
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U2 - 10.1007/s11661-002-0221-3
DO - 10.1007/s11661-002-0221-3
M3 - Article
SN - 1543-1940
VL - 33A
SP - 1201
EP - 1211
JO - Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A: Physical Metallurgy and Materials Science
JF - Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A: Physical Metallurgy and Materials Science
IS - 4
ER -