Designing Amorphous Carbon Coatings Using Numerical and Experimental Methods within a Multi-Scale Approach

Tremmel S, Marian M, Rothammer B, Weikert T, Wartzack S (2020)


Publication Language: English

Publication Type: Journal article, Original article

Publication year: 2020

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Book Volume: 404

Journal Issue: 77-84

URI: https://www.scientific.net/DDF.404.77

DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/DDF.404.77

Abstract

Amorphous carbon coatings have the potential to effectively reduce friction and wear in tribotechnical systems. The appropriate application of amorphous carbon layers requires both, a very good understanding of the tribological system and knowledge of the relationships between the fabrication of the coatings and their properties. In technical practice, however, the coatings’ development and their selection on the one hand and the design of the tribological system and its environment on the other hand are usually very strongly separated. The present work therefore aims to motivate the integrated development of tribotechnical systems with early consideration of the potential of amorphous carbon coatings. An efficient integrated development process is presented, which makes it possible to determine the boundary conditions and the load collective of the tribological system based upon an overall system and to derive the requirements for a tailored coating. In line with the nature of tribology, this approach must cover several scales. In this respect, the development process follows a V-model. The left branch of the V-model is mainly based upon a simulation chain including multibody and contact simulations. The right branch defines an experimental test chain comprising coating characterization to refine the contact simulation iteratively and tribological testing on different levels to validate the function fulfillment. Within this contribution, the outlined approach is illustrated by two use cases, namely the cam/tappet-pairing and the total knee replacement.

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APA:

Tremmel, S., Marian, M., Rothammer, B., Weikert, T., & Wartzack, S. (2020). Designing Amorphous Carbon Coatings Using Numerical and Experimental Methods within a Multi-Scale Approach. Defect and Diffusion Forum, 404(77-84). https://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/DDF.404.77

MLA:

Tremmel, Stephan, et al. "Designing Amorphous Carbon Coatings Using Numerical and Experimental Methods within a Multi-Scale Approach." Defect and Diffusion Forum 404.77-84 (2020).

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