This paper examines methods of assessing the wear resistance of coated and uncoated materials. Test equipment for sliding wear, erosion, impact and dynamic wear tests is discussed. Processes for measuring wear rates are highlighted and a simple procedure for conducting wear tests to simulate industrial wear problems is given. The wear test selected and the wear conditions encountered in real ap...

I. Pernis, J. Kasala, Alexander Dubček University of Trenčin, Faculty of Special Technology, Trenčin, Slovakia, D. Žabecká, Technical university of Košice, Faculty of Metallurgy, Košice, Slovakia The paper deals with the tribological properties of investigated types of hardfacing materials at erosive wear process. Infl uence of impact angle of abrasive grains on wear resistance and microhardnes...

Ball mills are common grinding equipment in mineral processing industries. Ball wear results from three mechanisms namely impact, abrasion and corrosion. Of these, the corrosion mechanism is the least investigated, due to its chemical-electrochemical nature. Therefore, the aims of this research were to investigate the grinding chemistry influence (slurry pH, solid percentage, water chemistry an...

M. Sedlaček, B. Podgornik, Institute of Metals and Technology, Ljubljana, Slovenia, D. Česnik, Hidria Rotomatika d.o.o, Spodnja Idrija, Slovenia The aim of this work was to determine the impact of various heat treatments on the KIc/HRc ratio and subsequently on the wear properties of coated high-speed steel under dynamic impact loading. The results showed that hardness and improvement in the fr...

[1] Abrasion by bed load is a ubiquitous and sometimes dominant erosional mechanism for fluvial incision into bedrock. Here we develop a model for bedrock abrasion by saltating bed load wherein the wear rate depends linearly on the flux of impact kinetic energy normal to the bed and on the fraction of the bed that is not armored by transient deposits of alluvium. We assume that the extent of al...

Considering backlash, time-varying mesh stiffness and radial clearance of bearing, nonlinear dynamic model of gear bearing flexible shaft system is established taking into account breathing crack in shaft and tooth wear. Nonlinear dynamic equations are solved by Runge-Kutta method. Effect of backlash, crack in shaft and tooth wear faults on the nonlinear dynamic behavior of gear-shaft-bearing s...

In this study carburizing and boronizing processes were applied to powder metallurgy steel specimens and the mechanical and tribological properties of the substrate and coatings were evaluated under various process conditions.&#10The specimens, made from industrial test pieces, were carburized in a powder pack for a duration of 2-5 hrs at 850-950 ˚C. Similar specimens were pack boronized for 4 ...

Nanoindentation with spherical and Berkovich indenters, reciprocating wear and dynamic impact tests were conducted to investigate the deformation and wear behavior of two Zr-based metallic glasses. The results indicated that the indenter shape may have an effect on the displacement bursts in the load-penetration curves as no apparent bursts could be observed when a Berkovich indenter was used. ...

The behaviour of the cryogenically treated En52 martensitic valve steel has been experimentally analyzed in this paper. Material samples are subjected to deep cryogenic treatment after completing the regular heat treatment. The critical properties of the valve steel like wear resistance, hardness, tensile strength and impact strength are evaluated for the cryo treated En52 valve steel samples a...