Objective
Improved components in fluid power systems which execute sliding or sealing operations in many cases require high wear resistance, good sliding properties, reduction of moved masses, stiffness and high corrosion resistance respectively. A combination of many of these properties can be satisfied in a by far optimised way by ceramic materials which offer a high potential mainly for the following fields of development in fluid power technology: increased tolerance to particle contamination in hydraulic and pneumatic fluids and use of more inexpensive and less environment-polluting pressure media such as high water-based fluids in hydraulics and unoiled dry air in pneumatics. The international competition on the fluid power market makes concepts for economic operation with reduced expenditures on servicing and repair and reduced filtration costs, also using cheaper and environmental acceptable pressure fluids more and more desirable. The objective of this project, investigating ceramic materials for fluid power applications, is the acquisition of theoretical and practical basic knowledge concerning tribological (erosion, stress corrosion cracking cavitation etc.) and fluidic (adherence of surface boundary layers, stick-slip etc.) aspects, the conceptual design and the realisation of fluid power components using ceramic materials and coatings and the verification of the working performance of such components in the developmental scale. Only on the basis of the know-how acquired in this project the selected and other components can be led to a commercially viable state exploiting the potentials of ceramic materials and reducing the component costs to an optimum. The volume of the European market for hydraulics and pneumatics, which is for the most part dominated by SME manufacturing companies, amounts to approx. 6.800 MECU. Thus, Europe is the world's leader in the fluid power industry with a market share of 52,3% of the world market. By the means of product innovation and improvement of the products' performance this strong market position shall be maintained and strengthened.
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68229 MANNHEIM
Germany
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