Abstract
Owing to the hardness and mechanical stability of thin hard coatings, they have a wide range of applications. For example, TiN coating has been used as a wear resistant coating. Tribological properties of PVD coatings produced by an arc ion plating process have been studied. The principal advantage of this method is to deposit coatings at lower temperature. The purpose of this study is to collect the basic data of friction and wear resistant properties. TiN coatings with a film thickness of 3μm are deposited on the substrate (SKD11) by PVD arc ion plating process. For sliding conditions changing the sliding speed and the load, the friction coefficient and the wear rate are measured using by ball-on-disc tester. It is found that they depend on the sliding conditions.
