Author(s)

Yuya Omiya¹, Masahiro Fujii¹, Ryo Ochiai¹, Koshi Ishimoto², Akihiro Ueda²

¹Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan.
²Research Laboratory, Machine Elements Department, IHI Corporation, Yokohama, Japan.

Recently, gears of high strength, reliability, and surface-damage-resistant under severe service conditions are required to achieve the weight saving and downsizing of a product. For the high-speed condition in particular, it is important to understand the influence of the surface properties on the scuffing resistance. If the effective surface profile to improve the lubrication property was found, the metal surfaces could be obtained with both surface strength and surface lubricity. Herein, the influence of surface properties modified with fine shot peening, which can form the arbitrary surface profile, on the scuffing resistance in the rolling-sliding contact machine element, was investigated. The scuffing test was performed using a two-cylinder rolling contact test machine. In a specific sliding, a faster roller of 60% and a sliding velocity of 1.75 m/s were utilized. The scuffing test results with shot-peened test rollers and those with non-shot-peened test roller were compared. The influence of the surface roughness of the shot-peened test roller was also discussed. We found that the shot-peened roller had a better scuffing resistance compared with the roller without the shot-peening process.

Contact Element, Scuffing, Shot Peening, Surface Properties, Surface Roughness, Micro Dimples

Omiya, Y. , Fujii, M. , Ochiai, R. , Ishimoto, K. and Ueda, A. (2018) Influence of Surface Properties Modified with Fine Shot Peening on Scuffing. Journal of Surface Engineered Materials and Advanced Technology, 8, 58-69. doi: 10.4236/jsemat.2018.83006.