XU Ziqing,QIN Guohui,ZHANG Chenhan,LI Yiming,ZHANG Qing,LI Zheng,LIU Ying,WANG Jingtao
In order to deeply research the wear mechanism of driving bands and explore the essence of the plastic deformation of driving bands,a comparison was made on the surface morphology,composition,microstructure and hardness of three driving-bands of 155 mm caliber artillery. The research results show that although the driving bands have different structural designs,compositional makeups and diverse service conditions,their microstructure distributions present common patterns after being in service,and their wear degrees are closely related to spatial positions. The wear on the non-driving side is generally lighter,and its microstructure is mainly equiaxed structure. Due to friction,fine-grained microstructure is generated at the top of the protruding part of driving band,while the internal microstructure morphology remains basically unchanged. The wear on the upper part of the driving side is the most serious,and the microstructure evolution presents a spatial distribution of fine-grained microstructure,fibrous microstructure,elongated microstructure and equiaxed microstructure from the surface to the inside. The wear degree at the bottom of the driving side is lower than that of the upper part. During the working process of the driving band,the deformation is concentrated on the surface,and the internal microstructure morphology above 200 μm from the surface hardly changes. The hardness analysis shows that the hardness on the non-driving side is similar to that inside the driving band,while both the upper part of the protruding position of the driving band and the upper part of the driving side present a "soft-hard" structure. Among them,the hardness of the fine-grained microstructure is the lowest; the hardness of the fibrous microstructure is the highest; the hardness of the equiaxed microstructure is in the middle. Among the three driving-bands,the wear of H96-2 is the most serious,while wear of H96-1 is the least.