Experimental study of the Hygrothermal effect on wear behavior of composite materials

Abstract EN

The hygrothermal effect on the wear behavior of composite material (fiberglass and polyester resin vf=40%) was investigated experimentally in this work.

The study includes manufacturing of test device (pin on disc) according to ASTM G 99.

In order to study the hygrothermal effect on wear behavior of composite materials the hygrothermal chamber was manufactured.

The experimental results show that the wear of glass fiber/polyester increased with increasing the load, sliding speed and sliding distance.

The load and sliding distance were more effective on the wear of the composite rather than sliding speed.

Also, it has been revealed that, the hygrothermal is considerable effect that, the wear rate of glass fiber/polyester without hygrothermal effect is lower than wear with hygrothermal effect.

Applied load is the wear factor that has the highest physical influence on the wear of composites materials than other wear factors.

Also, the wear of glass fiber/polyester without hygrothermal effect is lower than wear with hygrothermal effect.