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Effect of Heat Treatment on the Hardness and Wear of Grinding Balls

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The effect quenching and tempering by different regimes on Rockwell hardness and wear processes of grinding balls 50 and 70 mm in diameter made of two melts of chromium-molybdenum cast iron is studied. The heating temperature for quenching is 850, 950, and 1050°C; the tempering temperature is 250, 400, and 600°C. Iron is analyzed in an electron microscope. Diffraction patterns are obtained. A model of cast iron wear is suggested and compared to the Davis model and to experimental results. An optimum heat treatment regime is proposed.

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The authors thank the head of the laboratory of the Algerian Foundries of Tiaret ALFET/Algeria for valuable help in completing the work.

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  1. Research Laboratory of Industrial Technologies. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Sciences Ibn Khaldoun University, Tiaret, Algeria

    Sahraoui Aissat

  2. Laboratory of Mechanics, Materials and Energetic (L2ME), Faculty of Technology, University of Bejaia, Bejaia, Algeria

    Abdelhamid Sadeddine, Mohand Amokrane Bradai & Rassim Younes

  3. Faculty of Construction Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Department, UMMTO University of Tizi-Ouzou, Tizi-Ouzou, Algeria

    Ali Bilek

  4. Laboratory of Processes for Materials, Energy, Water and Environment (LPM3E). Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Bouira, Bouira, Algeria

    Abderrahim Benabbas

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Translated from Metallovedenie i Termicheskaya Obrabotka Metallov, No. 5, pp. 34 – 38, May, 2017.

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Aissat, S., Sadeddine, A., Bradai, M.A. et al. Effect of Heat Treatment on the Hardness and Wear of Grinding Balls. Met Sci Heat Treat 59, 297–301 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11041-017-0146-5

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