Project Info

Abrasive Wear Resistance Testing of Dual Phase Steels

Emmanuel De Moor | edemoor@mines.edu

Abrasive wear occurs on mechanical parts (e.g. on the blades and buckets of earth-moving
machinery and on production plant installations handling abrasive materials). Materials resistant to abrasive wear are therefore desirable in the industrial areas of agriculture, earth moving, excavation, mining, mineral processing, and transportation.
These industries consume increasing amounts of abrasion resistant materials due to the severity of abrasive wear on their equipment and machinery. Abrasive wear contributes to 63 pct of the financial cost associated with wear to the industry. The current project will examine high hardness microstructures generated by heat treating in the laboratory and their response using dry sand rubber wheel wear testing. Better performing materials would result in substantial operational cost savings in the field and reduced downtime for maintainance.

More Information

https://mountainscholar.org/handle/11124/79555

Grand Engineering Challenge: Not applicable