Materials Science Forum, Vol.495-497, 441-446, 2005
Texture changes of carbon steel and stainless steel as a result of wear
In this research, surface texture changes of carbon steel AISI 1045 and stainless steel AISI 304 under simultaneous wear and corrosion were investigated. A solution of 3.5 % wt. NaCl was used as the corrosion agent and a pin-on-disk tribometer was employed to perform wear and corrosion wear tests. Texture investigations of the worn samples have shown texture changes after wear and corrosion-wear tests. In worn carbon steel samples after dry wear test, {011}< 100 >. and {111} fiber texture components were developed in initially random oriented samples, whereas under corrosive-wear conditions, {111}< 011 > texture and {001}< 110 >. texture were developed. In the stainless steel samples, {112}< 110 > texture component was observed under both dry and corrosive wear conditions, in the samples that had random grain orientations before corrosion and corrosion-wear tests.