RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Influence of residual porosity on the dry and lubricated sliding wear of a powder metallurgy austenitic stainless steel A1 Martín Pedrosa, Fernando A1 García Cabezón, Ana Cristina A1 Blanco Val, María Yolanda K1 Sliding wear K1 Steel K1 Wear testing K1 Contact mechanics AB Powder metallurgy practices offer the opportunity to control the porosity of steels for tribology applications. The material of interest was an austenitic powder metallurgy stainless steel sintered in a nitrogen atmosphere. Four disc samples with increasing porosity (from 8% to 29%) were subjected to dry and lubricated sliding against an alumina pin using a rotary pin-on-disc tribometer. An estimation based on Hertzian contact analysis has been introduced to define the size of large pores. A normalized scar depth has been defined. The influence of pores on Archard׳s wear law has been analysed. Dry sliding, liquid lubrication, and self-lubrication (filled pores) were all evaluated. During the first few metres of dry sliding, the pores are closed by plastic deformation. After that, the wear rate can be considered the same. In lubricated conditions, pores are not closed and the higher the porosity, the lower the wear rate. In filled-pore, self-lubricated conditions, the sample with the highest porosity showed the lowest wear rate. Reasons for this behaviour are discussed. PB Elsevier SN 0043-1648 YR 2015 FD 2015 LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/21878 UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/21878 LA eng NO Wear 2015, 328–329, 1–7 DS UVaDOC RD 16-jul-2024