Wear Patterns and Lifetime of Electric Contacts
J. Song, C. Koch, in: IEEE (Ed.), 2008 Proceedings of the 54th IEEE Holm Conference on Electrical Contacts, 2008, pp. 238–244.
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Song, JianELSA;
Koch, Christian
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Gold plates are widely used for high performance connectors. Pure gold is very soft. In order to improve the wear resistance of gold plates, hard gold is usually used. The high hardness is achieved by alloying elements such as cobalt, iron or nickel. With an increasing rate of alloying elements the hardness of gold plates is increased. On the other hand, the alloying elements decrease the electrical conductivity, the corrosion resistance and the formability of gold plates. Our investigation shows that the wear rate of the hard gold plates at the contact area is still very high. The depth of the crater at the contact area very soon exceeds the thickness of the gold plates during the wear tests. Since the nickel underplate, the barrier layer, is very sensitive to fretting corrosion, the electric contacts must electrically fail at this stage, due to the strong increase of contact resistance. However, many electric contacts do not fail at this stage and at stages far beyond. Two very different wear patterns are the reasons for this phenomenon. Different amounts of gold, alloying elements, nickel and elements of base metals can be found at the bottom of the crater at the contact area by means of energy dispersive X-ray analysis (EDX). Depending on the lateral and spatial distribution of these elements, quite different electrical behavior of electric contacts can be observed. Therefore achieving the favored wear pattern, not increasing wear resistance alone, should be the target of modification of plating materials for increasing the lifetime of electric contacts.
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2008 Proceedings of the 54th IEEE Holm Conference on Electrical Contacts
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238 - 244
Konferenz
54th IEEE Holm Conference on Electrical Contacts
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Orlando, FL, USA
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2008-10-27 – 2008-10-29
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Song J, Koch C. Wear Patterns and Lifetime of Electric Contacts. In: IEEE, ed. 2008 Proceedings of the 54th IEEE Holm Conference on Electrical Contacts. ; 2008:238-244. doi:10.1109/HOLM.2008.ECP.50
Song, J., & Koch, C. (2008). Wear Patterns and Lifetime of Electric Contacts. In IEEE (Ed.), 2008 Proceedings of the 54th IEEE Holm Conference on Electrical Contacts (pp. 238–244). Orlando, FL, USA. https://doi.org/10.1109/HOLM.2008.ECP.50
Song J and Koch C (2008) Wear Patterns and Lifetime of Electric Contacts. In IEEE (ed.), 2008 Proceedings of the 54th IEEE Holm Conference on Electrical Contacts. pp. 238–244.
Song, Jian, and Christian Koch. “Wear Patterns and Lifetime of Electric Contacts.” In 2008 Proceedings of the 54th IEEE Holm Conference on Electrical Contacts, edited by IEEE, 238–44, 2008. https://doi.org/10.1109/HOLM.2008.ECP.50.
Song, Jian und Christian Koch. 2008. Wear Patterns and Lifetime of Electric Contacts. In: 2008 Proceedings of the 54th IEEE Holm Conference on Electrical Contacts, hg. von IEEE, 238–244. doi:10.1109/HOLM.2008.ECP.50, .
Song, Jian ; Koch, Christian: Wear Patterns and Lifetime of Electric Contacts. In: IEEE (Hrsg.): 2008 Proceedings of the 54th IEEE Holm Conference on Electrical Contacts, 2008, S. 238–244
J. Song, C. Koch, Wear Patterns and Lifetime of Electric Contacts, in: IEEE (Ed.), 2008 Proceedings of the 54th IEEE Holm Conference on Electrical Contacts, 2008: pp. 238–244.
J. Song and C. Koch, “Wear Patterns and Lifetime of Electric Contacts,” in 2008 Proceedings of the 54th IEEE Holm Conference on Electrical Contacts, Orlando, FL, USA, 2008, pp. 238–244.
Song, Jian, and Christian Koch. “Wear Patterns and Lifetime of Electric Contacts.” 2008 Proceedings of the 54th IEEE Holm Conference on Electrical Contacts, edited by IEEE, 2008, pp. 238–44, doi:10.1109/HOLM.2008.ECP.50.
Song, Jian/Koch, Christian (2008): Wear Patterns and Lifetime of Electric Contacts, in: IEEE (Hg.): 2008 Proceedings of the 54th IEEE Holm Conference on Electrical Contacts, S. 238–244.
Song J, Koch C. Wear Patterns and Lifetime of Electric Contacts. In: IEEE, editor. 2008 Proceedings of the 54th IEEE Holm Conference on Electrical Contacts. 2008. p. 238–44.
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