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The dry sliding wear tests were performed for AZ91D alloy under the loads of 12.5–300 N and the ambient temperatures of 25–200 °C. We studied the wear characteristics of AZ91D alloy as a function of the normal load and the ambient temperature. The mild-to-severe wear transition occurred with increasing the load and the critical load reduced with the ambient temperature rising. However, no matter how high the ambient temperature was in the range of 25–200 °C, the mild wear prevailed under the lower loads. Especially, the AZ91D alloy presented a lower wear rate at 200 °C than at 25 and 100 °C under the low loads of 12.5–25 N, but vice versa under the loads of more than 25 N. These phenomena seem to be contradictory to the popular view that the mild-to-severe wear transition is controlled by the critical surface temperature. These may be attributed to a thick and hard mechanical mixing layer (MML) containing the mixture of MgAl2O4 and Mg on the worn surface. The MML thickened with increasing the ambient temperature (under the low loads), effectively reduced wear and markedly elevated the critical surface temperature. The oxidative wear and delamination wear successively predominated in the mild wear regime; the gross plastic-induced wear would prevail in the severe wear regime.
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We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of High Technology Research Project (No. BG2007030), Research Fund for Doctoral Program of High Education (20070299004) and Vital Fundamental Nature Science Project of High University (07KJA43008) from Jiangsu Province.
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Wang, S.Q., Yang, Z.R., Zhao, Y.T. et al. Sliding Wear Characteristics of AZ91D Alloy at Ambient Temperatures of 25–200 °C. Tribol Lett 38, 39–45 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11249-009-9569-5
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