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Wear Characteristics of Polymer -Based Composites

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The dry wear of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE)-based composites, including bronze-filled composites (B60), glass-filled composites (G15), and carbon-filled composites (C25), produced by the mold casting method were investigated under different sliding conditions. The Taguchi L27 method and the analysis of variance were used to identify the effect of process parameters on the wear of tested materials. Experimental results showed that the wear resistance of G15 polymer composites was better than those of C25 and B60 ones. The specific wear rate decreased with increasing sliding distance and load, but partly decreased with increasing tensile strength.

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This work was financially supported by the Scientific Research Projects Unite (BAP) at the University of Gazi in Ankara, coded by number 07/2009-38.

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Russian translation published in Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 51, No. 5, pp. 769-784, September-October, 2015.

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Şahin, Y., Mirzayev, H. Wear Characteristics of Polymer -Based Composites. Mech Compos Mater 51, 543–554 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11029-015-9525-4

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