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Tribological performance evaluation of coated steels with TiNbCN subjected to tribo-chemical wear in Ringer's solution

 

J. Caballero-Gómez^a, J.C. Caicedo^b and W. Aperador^a

 

^a Volta Research Group, Universidad Militar Nueva Granada, Bogotá-Colombia.

^b Tribology Polymers, Powder Metallurgy and Processing of Solid Recycled Research Group Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia, e-mail: g.ing.materiales@gmail.com

 

Received 5 May 2015;
accepted 2 December 2015

 

Abstract

With the aim of generating solutions against the deterioration of the joint prostheses, it was studied the tribo-corrosive behavior of titanium niobium carbonitride (TiNbCN) deposited on stainless steel AISI 316 LVM using the technique of magnetron sputtering physical vapor deposition. The tests were performed in a balanced saline solution (Ringer's solution) which represents the characteristics of the body fluids, using an equipment where the micro-abrasive wear is generated by the contact of micro particles in the system; the micro-abrasion-corrosion mechanism is described by means of the incorporation of an electrochemical cell consisting of three electrodes. Both the substrate and the coating, were subjected to micro-abrasive wear simultaneously with the electrochemical tests of Tafel polarization curves and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS); subsequently of the tests, the specimens were analyzed by optical microscopy and scanning electron microscopy characterizing the surface morphology. It was observed that the coating presents an increase in its corrosion and wear resistance with the presence of a simulated biological fluid.

Keywords: Micro-abrasion; coating; AISI 316 LVM; wear; corrosion.

PACS: 87.80.Ek; 81.15.-z; 75.20.En; 46.55.+d; 82.45.Bb.

 

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Acknowledgments

This research was supported by the Universidad Militar Nueva Granada, Bogotá-Colombia project IMP-ING-1767 (2015).

 

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