Effects of Three Types of Textures on Wear Resistance and Mechanisms of Ultra-high Strength Steel Surfaces

LI Shuqing; CONG Dalong; PENG Dong; YANG Bingdong; MA Guojia

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Surface Technology ›› 2026, Vol. 55 ›› Issue (11) : 110-119. DOI: 10.16490/j.cnki.issn.1001-3660.2026.11.010

Friction, Wear and Lubrication

Effects of Three Types of Textures on Wear Resistance and Mechanisms of Ultra-high Strength Steel Surfaces

LI Shuqing^1,*, CONG Dalong^2,*, PENG Dong², YANG Bingdong¹, MA Guojia¹

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It is an advanced method to use the ultrafast laser for surface texturing to enhance the hydrophobicity and wear resistance of material surface. However, for ultra-high strength steel materials, there is currently no research on using ultrafast laser texturing to improve the friction and wear resistance. Ultra-high strength steel materials have excellent strength, wear resistance, and corrosion resistance, and are widely used in moving components of advanced equipment. However, with the continuous improvement of equipment performance and the increasing severity of service conditions, higher requirements have been put forward for the friction and wear resistance of the surface of ultra-high strength steel components. Traditional surface processing methods are currently unable to meet technical needs, and how to effectively improve the wear resistance and reduce the friction performance of ultra-high strength steel surfaces has become a research focus.
The work aims to study the optimal design and preparation of different three texture shapes on the surface of ultra-high strength steel (AF1410) with ultrafast laser technology. The design dimensions of the groove texture (1# specimen) are groove width of 200 µm, depth of 50 µm, and distance between adjacent groove centers of 100 µm. The actual processed dimensions are groove width of (200±3) µm, depth of (50±3) µm, and distance between adjacent groove centers of (100±3) µm, and the surface texture density is about 66.7%. Design morphology and dimensions of dislocation groove texture (2# specimen) are groove width of 200 µm, depth of 50 µm, center to center spacing between adjacent grooves of 100 µm, upper and lower row spacing of 190 µm, and single groove length of 1 600 µm. Actual processed dimensions are groove width of (200±3) µm, depth of (50±3) µm, center to center spacing between adjacent grooves of (100±3) µm, upper and lower row spacing of (190±3) µm, and single groove length of (1 600±10) µm. The two rows of grooves are not linearly aligned, but staggered to form an overall dislocation structure, with a surface texture density of about 59.6%. The design morphology and dimensions of the dislocation type regular hexagonal texture (3# specimen) are: the side length of the regular hexagonal is 800 µm, the depth is 50 µm, the distance between adjacent left and right sides is 700 µm, and the distance between upper and lower rows is 800 µm. The actual processed dimension is (800±5) µm, the depth is (50±4) µm, the distance between left and right sides is (700±5) µm, and the distance between upper and lower rows is (800±5) µm. The two rows of regular hexagonal textures are arranged in a staggered manner to form a dislocation type regular hexagonal texture structure, and the surface density of the texture is about 27.5%. The processing accuracy meets the technical requirements.
The friction and wear resistance of the textured surface is studied, and its wear mechanism is analyzed. The research results show that under dry friction and wear conditions, the surface mass wear rates of specimens with groove texture, dislocation groove texture, and dislocation type hexagonal texture are 82.7%, 42.8%, and 20.1% of the surface mass wear rates of specimens without texture matrix material, respectively. The surface wear mechanism with textured shapes is mainly dominated by plastic cutting and abrasive wear, with a small amount of adhesive wear. The shallower the surface plow marks, the smoother the surface, and the better the friction and wear resistance. The surface of the matrix without texture shaping has severe plastic cutting, deep plowing marks, accompanied by abrasive wear and adhesive wear. No oxidation wear occurs on the surface of the non-textured matrix or the surface with textured shapes.
Therefore, compared with the matrix material without texture modeling, the three types of textures in this work have improved the sliding friction and wear resistance of the surface of ultra-high strength steel materials, among which the enhancement effect of the regular hexagonal texture modeling is particularly significant.

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texture / ultra-high strength steel / AF1410 / friction and wear resistance / wear mechanism

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LI Shuqing, CONG Dalong, PENG Dong, YANG Bingdong, MA Guojia. Effects of Three Types of Textures on Wear Resistance and Mechanisms of Ultra-high Strength Steel Surfaces[J]. Surface Technology. 2026, 55(11): 110-119

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