The effect of pre-existing martensite on the sliding wear behaviour of a commercial metastable austenitic stainless steel was investigated. Two different steel conditions were considered: annealed (with a fully austenitic microstructure) and cold rolled, consisting of mixtures of austenite and martensite. Wear tests were carried out using ball on disc technique at constant velocity and different sliding distances. Correlation between microstructure and wear mechanisms was performed by X-ray diffraction, electron back-scattered diffraction and focus ion beam. Results show that wear resistance decrease at increasing the amount of pre-existing martensite. In this sense, the strain-induced martensite developed at higher degree for cold rolled samples which strengths the surface and consequently reduces plowing wear mechanism, typical of ductile abrasive wear. The detailed analysis of the wear track demonstrated the formation of ultrafine-grains layer just below the surface not only for annealed but also for cold rolled steel conditions. For both cases, the main wear mechanism developed for the studied sliding distances was tribocorrosion.
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AbstractThe effect of pre-existing martensite on the sliding wear behaviour of a commercial metastable austenitic stainless steel was investigated. Two different steel conditions were considered: annealed (with a fully austenitic microstructure) and cold rolled, consisting of mixtures of austenite and martensite. Wear tests were carried out using ball on disc technique at constant velocity and different sliding distances. Correlation between microstructure and wear mechanisms was performed by X-ray diffraction, electron back-scattered diffraction and focus ion beam. Results show that wear resistance decrease at increasing the amount of pre-existing martensite. In this sense, the strain-induced martensite developed at higher degree for cold rolled samples which strengths the surface and consequently reduces plowing wear mechanism, typical of ductile abrasive wear. The detailed analysis of the wear track demonstrated the formation of ultrafine-grains layer ...