Research Article

High Temperature Friction and Wear Performance of PVD Coatings under Press Hardening Contact Conditions

Figure 1

Top view schematic showing hot strip tribometer experimental configuration employed in tribological studies; is the normal force, is the friction force, is the pretension force, is the temperature of the work piece, is the velocity and is the sliding distance per work piece strip. Note that positions of heat shields during heating are indicated and that specimens are not according to scale.