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Volume 19, Issue 1, 2010
WEAR CHARACTERISITCS OF NANO-PARTICLE FILLED GFRP COMPOSITES
V. Srinivasan1* R. Karthikeyan2 N.Mohamad Raffi1 G.Ganesan1
1 Department of Manufacturing Engineering, Annamalai University, Annamalainagar – 608002, INDIA
2 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology & Sciences, DUBAI
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed, e-mail: srinivraghavan@yahoo.com, Tel: 91-4144-239734,Fax: 91-4144-239734
Received 16 April 2008; accepted 19 November 2009
ABSTRACT
In the recent years, the growth of glass fibre reinforced plastic (GFRP) is significantly higher than that of steel. In this study, the GFRP filled with 1 & 2% volume fraction of nano Alumina (Al2O3) particles were tested for their tribological behaviour.The wear maps were utilized to study the influence of control parameters like sliding velocity and normal force over the responses like coefficient of friction, contact temperature and wear rate. The micrographs of the worn out specimen showed the dominance of a particular wear mechanism in each sliding conditions.
Keywords: Glass Fibre Reinforced Plastics, Nano Composites, Wear, Wear Mechanism Map, Wear Transition Map, Polymer Matrix Composites
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