Development and tribological characterisation of composite tribo-patches

This article gives an attention to the development, processing and tribological characterization of special semi-finished products, so-called tribo-patches, for integration into complex structures from thermoplastic fiber composites. These patches are made of three different textile reinforced slides on the basis of chemically coupled/compatibilised thermoplastic (PP, PA6 and PEEK)-PTFE-compounds. The performed friction and wear analyses show that these maintenance-free foil bearings possesses very good tribological properties