Abstract
Tribocorrosion is a phenomenon present in a wide variety of processes; hence, understanding the tribocorrosion behavior of different systems is essential to being able to design robust and reliable systems. This has led us to investigate the tribocorrosion behavior of AISI 431 steel, a stainless steel commonly used for manufacturing mechanical pieces. The response to tribocorrosion was evaluated for the AISI 431 steel in contact with an aqueous solution of citric acid, a solution commonly used in the food industry. The tests were carried out using samples of steel uncoated and coated with tungsten oxynitride in a pin-on-disc configuration using a tailored tribocorrosion cell. The uncoated AISI 431 presented good wear and corrosion resistance but presented tribocorrosion degradation, where the growth of the passivation film and the mechanical removal of such film were the driving factors for the tribocorrosion process. Furthermore, when the steel was coated with the tungsten oxynitride film, we found that the surface presented a better resistance to wear, corrosion, and tribocorrosion. Such findings open a great opportunity for the use of these types of coatings to protect systems against tribocorrosion.
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