Thin polymeric coatings have been applied to metal surfaces to prevent and/or prolong the onset of fretting corrosion, but the properties that make a polymeric coating effective and the means by which a coating fails are unknown. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of molecular weight, casting solvent, and amplitude of motion on the life of thin (25 ~m nominal) polystyrene coatings. Narrow molecular weight distribution polystyrene coatings ranging from <Mw>=19,400 to <Mw>=1,460,000 were applied to UNS G10450 steel disks with toluene and MEK as casting solvents. The coatings were fretted against UNS G52100 steel balls at 20 Hz under 22.3 N normal load. Amplitudes of motion ranged from 100 ~m to 500 ~m. Coating life and friction force were measured. Coatings of <Mw>=207,700 showed maximum life at all amplitudes. Friction remained constant for all tests, and increasing amplitude decreased life. Toluene-cast coatings had slightly shorter lives and more coating racks than MEK-cast coatings. Toluene-cast coatings below <Mw>=53,700 cracked severely during solvent removal and were not tested. / Master of Science
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VTETD/oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/43837 |
| Date | 21 July 2010 |
| Creators | Bradley, Randall S. |
| Contributors | Mechanical Engineering, Eiss, Norman S. Jr., Furey, Michael J., Taylor, Larry T. |
| Publisher | Virginia Tech |
| Source Sets | Virginia Tech Theses and Dissertation |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis, Text |
| Format | xiii, 211 leaves, BTD, application/pdf, application/pdf |
| Rights | In Copyright, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
| Relation | OCLC# 19609314, LD5655.V855_1988.B723.pdf |
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