EFFECT OF REINFORCEMENT MATERIALS AND PROCESS PARAMETERS ON THE WEAR RATE OF POLYETHYLENE SURFACE COMPOSITES MADE BY FRICTION STIR PROCESS

Abdulbasit Abdulqadir  Hamza; Shawnam Rashied  Jalal

doi:10.30572/2018/KJE/170216

Authors

Abdulbasit Abdulqadir Hamza Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, Engineering College, Salahaddin, University, Erbil, Iraq
Shawnam Rashied Jalal Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, Engineering College, Salahaddin, University, Erbil, Iraq

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30572/2018/KJE/170216

Keywords:

Polymer matrix composite, Surface Composites, Friction stir process, Wear rate, Reinforcement particle materials, High-density polyethylene

Abstract

This study employed the friction stir approach in conjunction with a stationary shoe tool system to fabricate high-density polyethylene matrix surface composite with adding various filler material particles, such as copper, graphene, silicon carbide, and silicon dioxide. Here, L9 Taguchi method was used to design of experiment and to show the effect of FSP parameters such as tool rotational speed, traverse speeds, and amount of particles on the wear rate behavior. According to the findings, fabricated HDPE composite's wear resistance have improved due to the presence of hard particles in the HDPE sheet. At the optimum set of parameters (rotational speed of 679 rpm, traverse speed of 22 mm/min, and volume fraction of 20%), the wear rate of the HDPE/SiC composite decreased by 84.81 % when compared with the base HDPE. But, the (SiO_2,Cu, and C) reinforced composites wear rate decreased with (76.94, 72.61, and 69.74) % respectively

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