Tribocorrosão do aço UNS S32750 em meio cloretado: instrumentação e resultados experimentais

Abstract

Two of the main forms of degradation of metallic materials are related to mechanical and electrochemical damages due to friction and corrosion processes respectively. Especially in passive materials, such as stainless steels, there is a synergy between these mechanisms of damage. In this dissertation, we carried out tribocorrosion tests of superduplex steel UNS S32750 in 3.5 wt% NaCl aqueous solution. Initially, to perform these tests was necessary to instrumentate and adapt a pin-on-disk tribometer, wich had built at the Instituto Politécnico of UERJ. In order to identify most relevant tribocorrosion parameters of this system, was designed a 23 factorial design and, from these results, other more specific tests were developed. In situ electrochemical techniques of electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, potentiodynamic polarization and zero resistance amperometry were used on samples under tribological solicitation. The results showed that the applied load is the most influent factor on electrochemical measurements. It was found a close correlation between the electrochemical and mechanical aspects, based on the analysis of friction coefficient and the results of electrochemical tests, mainly those obtained from potentiodynamic sweeping and zero resistance amperometry. The electrochemical data for mechanical loads clearly shows two groups of different behaviors, below and beyond the applied charge of 7 N.