Mechanical and Abrasive Wear Behavior of Metal Sulphide Lubricant Filled Epoxy Composites

Abstract

The present work reveals the effect of the addition of commercial MoS 2 (10 wt%) particles on mechanical and two-body abrasive wear behavior of epoxy with/without glass fiber mat reinforcement. The composites were fabricated using casting and simple hand lay-up techniques followed by compression molding. The mechanical properties such as density, hardness, tensile, and flexural properties were determined as per ASTM standards. The abrasive wear testing was carried out using pin-on-disc wear tester for different loads and abrading distances at constant speed of 1 m/s. A significant reduction in wear loss and specific wear rate was noticed after the incorporation of MoS 2 filler allowing less wear of matrix during abrasion which in turn facilitated lower fiber damage. However the incorporation of MoS 2 particles had a detrimental effect on most of the mechanical properties of the composites. The worn surface features were investigated through scanning electron microscopy (SEM) in order to investigate the wear mechanisms.

Abrasive wear of polypropylene/Cloisite 30B/Elvaloy AC 3427 nanocomposites

“…Sudheer et al. 26 was also reported the similar trend of increase in density values by increasing content of molybdenum disulphide to glass fibre-epoxy matrix.

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“…% PP/C30B/EA nanocomposite due to the presence of more amount of C30B when compared to the other combination of PP/C30B/EA nanocomposite specimens. Sudheer et al 26 was also reported the similar trend of increase in density values by increasing content of molybdenum disulphide to glass fibre-epoxy matrix.…”

Effect of coir fiber and inorganic filler hybridization on Innegra fiber-reinforced epoxy polymer composites: physical and mechanical properties

“…The versatility of the inorganic ller in improving the exural strength reduces beyond the crucial addition of y ash because of the accumulation of inorganic llers (Shivamurthy et al, 2013;Taurozzi et al, 2012). This ller accumulation is affected by an increment of ller-ller interactions during the mechanical stirring process (Sudheer et al, 2013). The llers accumulation would potentially increment polymer-ller interruption viscosity and affect bad wetting reaction between them (Sudheer et al, 2013).…”

“…This ller accumulation is affected by an increment of ller-ller interactions during the mechanical stirring process (Sudheer et al, 2013). The llers accumulation would potentially increment polymer-ller interruption viscosity and affect bad wetting reaction between them (Sudheer et al, 2013). Hence, the lower enhancement in the exural characteristics was endorsed for CFTIPE that signi es 65% improvement compared to a neat epoxy polymer.…”

Preparation and Tribological Properties of Modified MoS2/SiC/Epoxy Composites

“…There is much research on the friction and wear of epoxy resin filled with SiC or MoS 2 [ 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 ], but, so far, there are few reports on the synergistic filling of SiC and MoS 2 . In this paper, EP composites with different proportions of SiC and MoS 2 were prepared.…”