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On the Mechanism of Failure of Particulate Rigid Disks

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Pages 618-622 | Published online: 25 Mar 2008
 

Abstract

The sliding system used with particulate rigid disks, involving a ceramic head sliding against a disk coated with iron oxide particles in a resin iv unusual in a number of ways. Perhaps the most striking is that, in use, there is for a long time no measurable wear, but once damage is initiated failure is rapid. To investigate this type of wear, numerous pin-on-disk sliding tests have been carried out. Analysis of the wear results suggests that in the authors' tests, the failure is caused by adhesive rather than abrasive or fatigue wear; however, it is not easy to judge whether failure is due to the wearing away of the alumina particles in the magnetic coating, or else to a polymer coating adhering to the pin surface.

Presented as a Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers paper at the ASME/STLE Tribology Conference In Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 8–10, 1990

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Presented as a Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers paper at the ASME/STLE Tribology Conference In Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 8–10, 1990

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