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Wear Improvement in Ti-6Al-4V by Ion Implantation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2011

R.G. Vardiman
R.G. Vardiman*
Affiliation:
Naval Research Laboratory Washington, D.C. 20375
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Abstract

The friction and wear of Ti-6Al-4V are found to be sharply reduced by carbon implantation followed by heat treatment. Optimum wear resistance is developed at 400° C, at which the microstructure of the implanted layer shows a dense array of TiC precipitates up to 60 nm in size. The implanted layer in this case is worn through in a few thousand cycles of the ball on disc test, but by implanting at two energies to achieve a deeper carbide layer, negligible wear was found even after 20,000 cycles. No wear improvement was found for nitrogen implantation.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 27: Symposium E – Ion Implantation and Ion Beam Processing of Materials , 1983 , 699
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1984

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