A6×19 point-contact hoisting cable was used as our research object to examine the progress of corrosion of steel wires in a laboratory,simulating the actual working conditions in a coalmine.An electrochemical method was used to investigate the corrosion behavior of steel wires with different surface treatments of a corrosive acid solution.The results show that anode activation of steel wire mainly occurs during pre-corrosion,where the anode activation process of bare steel wires is the fastest as is their corresponding corrosion speed,while the anode activation process of oil coated steel wires and their corresponding corrosion speed are the lowest.During the intermediate and late immersion periods, a passive film is generated on the surface of steel wires,which are gradually damaged with the passage of time.Local pitting corrosion occurs easily on the surface of steel wires with a high-polarization potential. Suitable equivalent circuits were chosen to fit the electrochemical impedance spectroscopy（EIS）of steel wires over various corrosive times and different surface treatments,which indicate good fitting results. The double electrical layer charge-transfer resistance increases in the sequence：bare steel wire, untreated steel wire and oil coated steel wire and their corrosion resistance decreases in turn,which is consistent with their polarization curves.The oil layer provides a certain protective effect on untreated steel wires,but its effect is not entirely clear.
Poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA)/hydroxyapatite (HA) composite hydrogel specimens were prepared with 15% PVA and 1%,2%, 3%, 4% and 5% HA by repeated freezing-thawing. The tests of static and dynamic mechanical properties were carried out todiscuss the influence of different contents of HA and freezing-thawing cycles on the mechanical properties of PVA/HA compositehydrogel. The results of static mechanical tests showed that the PVA/HA composite hydrogel with 3% HA and ninefreezing-thawing cycles had excellent stress relaxation properties, higher relaxation ratio, lower stress equilibrium value andpresented better properties of creep and recovery. The results of dynamic mechanical test showed that the PVA/HA compositehydrogel with nine freezing-thawing cycles had higher storage modulus and loss modulus, so was the PVA/HA compositehydrogel with 3% HA.
Dekun Zhang~1, Junjie Duan~1, Dagang Wang~2, Shirong Ge~2 1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology Xuzhou 221116, P. R. China 2. School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, P. R. China
Given that fretting wear causes failure in steel wires, we carried out tangential fretting wear tests of steel wires on a self-made fretting wear test rig under contact loads of 9 and 29 N and fretting amplitudes ranging from 5 to 180 μm. We observed morphologies of fretted steel wire surfaces on an S-3000N scanning electron microscope in order to analyze fretting wear mecha-nisms. The results show that the fretting regime of steel wires transforms from partial slip regime into mixed fretting regime and gross slip regime with an increase in fretting amplitudes under a given contact load. In partial slip regime, the friction coefficient has a relatively low value. Four stages can be defined in mixed fretting and gross slip regimes. The fretting wear of steel wires in-creases obviously with increases in fretting amplitudes. Fretting scars present a typical morphology of annularity, showing slight damage in partial slip regime. However, wear clearly increases in mixed fretting regime where wear mechanism is a combination of plastic deformation, abrasive wear and oxidative wear. In gross slip regime, more severe degradation is present than in the other regimes. The main fretting wear mechanisms of steel wires are abrasive wear, surface fatigue and friction oxidation.
SHEN Yan, ZHANG Dekun, GE Shirong School of Materials Science and Engineering, China University of Mining & Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China
