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Wear mechanisms occuring in plastic gears

Goffin B., Legras R., Debier D.

International Journal of Applied Mechanics and Engineering

2002

Vol. 7, no 3

783-790

The surface and bulk of injection moulded spur gears made of glass fibres reinforced polyamide internally lubricated with polytetrafluoroethylene PTFE have been characterised before and after wear testing on a gear test rig. The use of irradiated PTFE proved to be essential to obtain the best wear behaviour. The evolution of surface morphology across testing time allowed to visualise the formation and breaking of a film layer between the two running gears. This film, formed through the melting of the polymers at the surface, plays an important role in polymer tribology in reducing the dry wear. In long lasting tests, the film is not only observed around the pitch line, but everywhere at the worn tooth surface. Generated wear debris could be parts of the film, broken through high shear and abrasive effect of fibre fragments, as confirmed by thermogravimetric and elemental analysis. The conclusions could be extended to various polyamide based composite gears. Running dissimilar materials against each other showed that the film is formed from the bulk of the gear. Therefore the film formation does not involve material transfer from one surface to its counterpart.