Tribological behavior of three typical bearing alloys under influence of additives

The influences of lubricating additives on the tribological behavior of lead, tin, copper base bearing alloys-0.45%C steel rubbing pairs under the condition of boundary lubrication were researched. The results show that because of the difference of physical chemistry performance at bearing alloys and steel, some conventional lubricating additives which is beneficial to steel-steel rubbing pairs is harmful to these bearing alloys-steel rubbing pairs,and the wear volume can be increase by 7 times under the test condition. The measure results of contact resistance during the test process show that the higher the contact resistance at rubbing surface, the better the tribological behavior of tribo-system. Moreover for the lead base and tin base bearing alloys-0.45%C steel rubbed pairs, the thicker the compact oxide layer of steel surface, the larger the friction coefficient and wear volume, which demonstrates that oxidation wear plays an important part in the wear process.