Influence of the Nonequilibrium Material State on Wear Resistance
Iosif Gershman,
Alexander Mironov,
Stephen Veldhuis,
Eugeniy I. Gershman,
Pavel Podrabinnik,
Ekaterina Kuznetsova
Affiliations
Iosif Gershman
Laboratory of Electric Currents Assisted Sintering Technologies, Moscow State University of Technology “STANKIN”, Vadkovsky Lane 3a, 127055 Moscow, Russia
Alexander Mironov
Laboratory of Electric Currents Assisted Sintering Technologies, Moscow State University of Technology “STANKIN”, Vadkovsky Lane 3a, 127055 Moscow, Russia
Stephen Veldhuis
Department of Mechanical Engineering, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON L8S4L7, Canada
Eugeniy I. Gershman
Laboratory of Electric Currents Assisted Sintering Technologies, Moscow State University of Technology “STANKIN”, Vadkovsky Lane 3a, 127055 Moscow, Russia
Pavel Podrabinnik
Laboratory of Electric Currents Assisted Sintering Technologies, Moscow State University of Technology “STANKIN”, Vadkovsky Lane 3a, 127055 Moscow, Russia
Ekaterina Kuznetsova
Laboratory of Electric Currents Assisted Sintering Technologies, Moscow State University of Technology “STANKIN”, Vadkovsky Lane 3a, 127055 Moscow, Russia
The influence of the nonequilibrium state of a material on its wear resistance is investigated in this study. Using methods of non-equilibrium thermodynamics and the theory of self-organization, a non-equilibrium material is shown to possess an overall lower wear rate than a material in an equilibrium state. This was experimentally demonstrated to be the case in different materials and tribosystems, such as Babbit operating in complete lubrication conditions, copper in the current collector and a cutting tool with a coating applied on it.
