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Hot pressed silicon carbide (SiC) composites prepared with 0, 10, 30 or 50 wt% tungsten carbide (WC) are subjected to dry sliding wear against WC-Co and steel ball. In particular an attempt has been made to answer the following important questions: (i) How does the load (from 5 to 20 N) effect sliding wear behaviour of SiC-ceramics against WC-Co and steel counterbodies? (ii) Is there any effect of WC content on friction and wear characteristics of SiC ceramics? (iii) Does the dominant material removal mechanism of SiC ceramics change with the addition of WC or counterbody? (iv) What is the influence of mechanical properties on the sliding wear? Experimental results indicated that coefficient of friction (COF) for the SiC ceramics varied between 0.66 and 0.33 with change in load and counterbodies. Wear volume for SiC ceramics found approximately 6−10 times more against WC-Co as compared against steel. Wear volume changes from 2.0 × 10–3 mm3 to 1.2 × 10–2 mm3 with change in counterbodies for SiC-(10, 30 or 50 wt%) WC composite at 20 N. SiC ceramics indicated abrasion and composites reveal tribochemical wear as major material removal mechanisms. Wear is influenced by the hardness of counterbody and fracture toughness of SiC-WC composites.
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B.V. Manoj Kumar acknowledges partial support from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, India through project No. 22(0654)/14/ EMR-II. Young-Wook Kim acknowledges partial support from a National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning (Grant number: 2016K1A3A1A19945992).
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Sandan Kumar SHARMA. He received his bachelors degree in mechanical engineering in 2010 from T.I.T. Bhopal, RGPV, India. He achieved his master degree in metallurgical and materials engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee in 2012. He has recently obtained his Ph.D. degree from IIT Roorkee. His research interest includes processing of advance ceramics and their tribology.
B. Venkata MANOJ KUMAR. He is currently working as Associate Professor at the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee. He obtained Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur in materials and metallurgical engineering in 2007. After working one year as post-doctoral researcher at Seoul National University and two years as Research Assistant Professor at University of Seoul, he joined IIT Roorkee, India as Assistant Professor in 2011. Dr. Manoj works in understanding the microstructure-mechanical property-wear relation of important ceramics/cermets and composites prepared using advanced sintering techniques.
Young-Wook KIM. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in materials science and engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea, in 1983 and 1990, respectively. Before joining the University of Seoul in 1996, he worked as a senior research scientist at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (1990−1996). His current position is a professor of materials science and engineering at University of Seoul. His research interests include the microstructural control of nonoxide ceramics, the mechanical, tribological, electrical and thermal properties of SiC ceramics, and the processing of SiC membranes.
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Sharma, S.K., Manoj Kumar, B.V. & Kim, YW. Tribology of WC reinforced SiC ceramics: Influence of counterbody. Friction 7, 129–142 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40544-017-0194-2
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