SYMPOSIA PAPER Published: 01 January 1998
STP12147S

Rolling Contact Fatigue Properties of TIN/NBN Superlattice Coatings on M-50 Steel

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A superlattice coating (TiN/NbN) was evaluated and shown to successfully increase the rolling contact fatigue (RCF) performance of M-50 steel when tested on the Ball/Rod RCF tester at 3.4 GPa contact stress and a lambda condition of 0.7. The L10 life of the M-50 steel improved from 2 to 10 times when coated with the TiN/NbN superlattice coating. Lives of the coated M-50 specimens varied depending on the approximated thickness of the individual coating layers. Thinner layers resulted in better RCF performance. The superlattice coating consisted of alternating layers of TiN and NbN, deposited using an unbalance magnetron sputtering system. Due to the two fold symmetry of the cylindrical samples, the individual layers were not deposited in perfectly distinct layers.

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Liston, M-JA
NTN Technical Center, (U.S.A.) Inc., Ann Arbor, MI
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Developed by Committee: A01
Pages: 499–510
DOI: 10.1520/STP12147S
ISBN-EB: 978-0-8031-5381-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-8031-2421-9