Fretting behavior of nickel coatings for electrical contact applications

Electrical Contacts, Proceedings of the Annual Holm Conference on Electrical Contacts

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 78-85

  Noel S ^a   Alamarguy, D ^a   Correia, S ^a   Laurat, P ^b  

^a UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

^b Legrand   (France)

Author keywords

Components; Contact resistance; Electrodeposition; Fretting degradation; Microstructure; Nickel

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CONTACT RESISTANCE; ELECTRIC CONTACTS; ELECTRODEPOSITION; ELECTRODES; MICROSTRUCTURE; NICKEL; NICKEL DEPOSITS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

COMPONENTS; ELECTRICAL BEHAVIORS; ELECTRICAL CHARACTERIZATION; ELECTRICAL CONTACTS; FRETTING BEHAVIORS; FRETTING EXPERIMENTS; GRAIN CHARACTERISTICS; MICRO/NANO-SCALE;

NICKEL COATINGS;

EID: 80054938424     PISSN: 03614395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HOLM.2011.6034784     Document Type: Conference Paper

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