Effect of temperature on the fretting corrosion of tin plated copper alloy contacts

Wear

Volumn 262, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 320-330

  Park, Young Woo ^a   Narayanan, T S N Sankara ^a   Lee, Kang Yong ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Contact resistance; EDX; Electrical connector; Fretting corrosion; Intermetallic compound; SEM; Surface roughness; Tin plating; XRD

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONNECTORS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; FRETTING CORROSION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THERMAL EFFECTS; TINNING; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

CONTACT RESISTANCE;

INTERMETALLICS;

ELECTRIC CONNECTORS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; FRETTING CORROSION; INTERMETALLICS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THERMAL EFFECTS; TINNING; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

EID: 33846098872     PISSN: 00431648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wear.2006.05.020     Document Type: Article

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