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The experimental evaluation and application of high-temperature solid lubricants. ph.d. thesis - case western reserve univ., 1989 final report
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Dellacorte, Christopher |
| Copyright Year | 1990 |
| Description | A research program is described which developes an understanding of high-temperature solid lubrication and experimental techniques through the development of a composite lubricant coating system. The knowledge gained through this research was then applied to a specific engineering challenge, the tribology of a sliding seal for hypersonic flight vehicles. The solid lubricant coating is a chromium carbide based composite combined with silver, which acts as a low temperature lubricant, and barium fluoride/calcium fluoride eutectic, which acts as a high-temperature lubricant. This composite coating provides good wear resistance and low friction for sliding contacts from room temperature to over 900 C in reducing or oxidative environments. The specific research on this coating included a composition screening using a foil gas bearing test rig and the use of thin silver films to reduce initial wear using a pin-on-disk test rig. The chemical stability of the materials used was also addressed. This research indicated that soft metallic films and materials which become soft at elevated temperatures are potentially good lubricants. The general results from the experiments with the model solid lubricant coating were then applied to a sliding seal design concept. This seal design requires that a braided ceramic fabric slide against a variety of metal counterface materials at temperatures from 25 to 850 C in an oxidative environment. A pin-on-disk tribometer was used to evaluate the tribological properties of these materials and to develop lubrication techniques. The results indicate that these seal materials must be lubricated to prevent wear and reduce friction. Thin films of silver, gold and calcium fluoride provided lubrication to the sliding materials. |
| File Size | 2637005 |
| Page Count | 60 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19900007628 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t52g2mx4v |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1990-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Nonmetallic Materials High Temperature Lubricants Gold Chromium Carbides Sliding Ceramics Calcium Fluorides Foil Bearings Hypersonic Vehicles Thin Films Friction Reduction Silver Gas Bearings Friction Metal Films Barium Fluorides Solid Lubricants Eutectics Wear Resistance Fabrics Tribology Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Thesis |
