Analysis of mild and severe regimes of abrasive wear using instrumented hardness testing.

Author(s)

Giuseppe Pintaúde

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola Politécnica (EP/BC)
• Defense date: 2002-10-29

Examining board members

Amilton Sinatora; Eduardo Albertin; Roberto Hubler; José Daniel Biasoli de Mello; André Paulo Tschiptschin

• Advisor: Amilton Sinatora

Abstract

This work presents an experimental methodology to investigate the relationship between abrasive wear rates and hardness. The mild and severe abrasive wear regimes are investigated in relation to the abrasive hardness-to-worn material hardness ratio (HA/H). Pin-against-paper tests were performed, using glass as abrasive material in two grain sizes, grit #80 and grit #240, and 3-mm diameter pins under 20 N of applied load. The tested materials were AISI 1006 e AISI 52100 steels, the last one in different metallurgical conditions, and a high-chromium white cast iron, with eutetic composition and pearlitic matrix. Three kinds of tribological system responses were used to evaluate the wear regimes: mass loss, friction coefficient and load of penetration of abrasive. Mass losses were determined along testing time; friction coefficient was determined by means of load cell and the load of penetration using instrumented hardness test, selecting the maximum depth penetration based on the Rz roughness parameter. From hardness measurements, a parameter was used to incorporate the elastic-plastic behavior of materials, which consider the indentation hardness morphology. Using this parameter, it was possible to obtain a kind of hardness called \"true\", which incorporate the pilling-up and sinking-in effects. It has been demonstrated that the relative abrasive resistance is not dependent of the abrasive particle size, but the friction coefficient values change, under severe wear regime. On the other hand, under mild regime, the friction coefficient values are independent of the abrasive particle size. (AU)