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Friction factor

Friction factor

Friction factor

(OP)
Hello to everybody,
I'm looking forward materials which have a friction factor of about 0.2 (lubricated) and the higher hardness.
Does it make sense to search such marterial?
In advance thanks!
JamesXIII

Electro-mechanical designer

RE: Friction factor

Can you be more specific about the material
you want to use?  Also the typical hardness?

RE: Friction factor

(OP)
hello diamondjim,

The hardness would be around 50HRC, I wanted to use steel but the steel-steel friction factor is about 0.1. Do you have any idea of material pair which will have a friction factor of 0.2 with lubrication

Electro-mechanical designer

RE: Friction factor

You can use powders like "Carborundum" on the steel-base contacting surfaces. Dry steel-steel + carborundum raises up the friction factor to 0.5.
Roughening the contacting surfaces can raise it up to 0.25 / 0.3 (but you have to check if there aren't any drawbacks...)

RE: Friction factor

I think Type F automatic transmission fluid is around that range at low sliding velocities.  Might be more controllable than almost mythical coefficient of friction, which seems to have a range of values despite hosts of published data.

RE: Friction factor

Hi jamesXIII,
  for what it is worth, Machinerys Handbook 25th Ed. p.190 Table 2 "Coefficients of Static Friction for Various Material Combinations" shows sapphire on sapphire = 0.2 for dry and 0.2 for lubricated.  Sapphire is hard so this meets your criteria.  However, I think you will need to establish an allowance band or additional critera to arrive at anything meaningful.  

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