In this paper an attempt is made to use in wear prediction besides the wear from plastic and brittle components also fatigue fracture component. As example, WC-Co hardmetal reinforced composite hardfacing wear at abrasive impact erosion wear conditions was calculated at low and high impact energy, accountig microcutting with surface fatigue for the wear of matrix and brittle fracture, surface fatigue and plastic deformation for the wear of reinforcement. Calculated wear rates are compared with data obtained from experimental tests. The obtained results show that the used surface fatigue wear model is not applicable in the current case; the recommendations for the further improvement of the model are issued.
This paper focuses on the influence of hardmetal reinforcement amount, shape and size on the abrasive wear resistance of composite iron self-fluxing alloy (FeCrSiB) based hardfacings produced by the powder metallurgy (PM) technology. First, the size of the reinforcement (1 – 2.5 mm) was fixed, but its shape (angular or spherical) and amount (0 – 50 vol%) were varied. Then the reinforcement shape (angular) and amount (50 vol%) were kept constant, while its size (0.16 – 0.315 mm fine reinforcement and 1 – 2.5 mm coarse reinforcement) and proportion of fine and coarse reinforcement (all fine, all coarse, half fine-half coarse) were varied. ASTM G65 abrasive rubber wheel wear test was applied to find out the wear resistance of the hardfacings; an unreinforced self-luxing alloy (FeCrSiB) hardfacing was the reference material. Volumetric wear rate was calculated according to the weight loss. Worn surfaces were studied under scanning electron microscope. As a result, an optimal composition of the hardmetal containing Fe-based hardfacings based on the reinforcement amount (vol%), shape (irregular or spherical) and size (fine or coarse) is given.
The article focuses on vacuum liquid phase sintered (PM) composite hardfacings and their behaviour under different abrasive wear conditions. Hardfacings studied contained 30 -50 vol % fine, coarse or multimodal (fine and coarse) hardmetal reinforcement. For wear resistance studies, we used the Abrasive Rubber Wheel Wear (ARWW) test as a threebody abrasive wear test, the Abrasive Wheel Wear (AWW) test as a two-body abrasive wear test and the Abrasive-Impact Erosion wear (AIEW) test as an abrasive-erosive wear test. Tested materials were compared to Hardox 400 steel and CDP112 wear plate (Castolin Eutectic® Ltd.). It was found that under three-body abrasion conditions (ARWW test) hardfacings with high content of spehrical coarse reinforcement are suitable; their wear resistance is about two times higher than that of unreinforced hardfacings. Under two-body abrasive wear (AWW test), hardfacings with a high content of coarse reinforcement are recommended; their wear resistance is up to eight times higher than that of unreinforced hardfacings from the figures and graphs mentioned in the text. Under abrasive-erosive wear (AIEW test), unreinforced ductile materials are recommended; they have two to three times higher wear resistance than composite hardfacings reinforced with fine or multimodal reinforcement.
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