Mechanical and high pressure tribological properties of nanocrystalline Ti(N,C) and amorphous C:H nanocomposite coatings uri icon

abstract

  • This paper reports on the mechanical and high pressure tribological properties of nanocrystalline (nc-) Ti(N,C)/amorphous (a-) C:H deposited, using low temperature ( 200 C) DC reactive magnetron sputtering. The mechanical properties are affected by the nc-Ti(N,C)/a-C:H phase fraction ratio. For increasing C contents (from 31 to 47 at.%) an increase of the a-C:H phase content and a degradation of the nanocrystalline phase occurs leading to a reduction in nanoindentation hardness (H) values (from 15 to 9 GPa) and reduced modulus (Er) values (from 150 to 80 GPa). A strong correlation between H/E ratio and wear performance was exhibited by the coatings. The synthesized coatings survived up to 100 m sliding distance when tested using pin-on-disc sliding configuration at > 4.5 GPa contact pressures and the measured friction coefficient values were similar for all films ( 0.21-0.25). 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

published proceedings

  • DIAMOND AND RELATED MATERIALS

author list (cited authors)

  • Tsotsos, C., Polychronopoulou, K., Demas, N. G., Constantinides, G., Gravani, S., Boebel, K., ... Rebholz, C.

citation count

  • 9

complete list of authors

  • Tsotsos, C||Polychronopoulou, K||Demas, NG||Constantinides, G||Gravani, S||Boebel, K||Baker, MA||Polycarpou, AA||Rebholz, C

publication date

  • July 2010