Design and manufacturing of a pin-on-disk wear testing apparatus

Abstract EN

The present work is about a design and manufacturing process of a pin-on-disk apparatus which is used as a test method for determining the wear of any two sliding materials.

The aim of this paper is to give an information about the design steps and manufacturing procedure for the pin-on-disk apparatus and to discuss the problems follows the design and manufacturing process.

It also gives information about wear testing process.

Different types of experiments were done with several different test specimens to be able to make a comparison between wear test results of this work and that of another experiment found in literatures.

It was concluded, that a pin-on-disk wear testing apparatus which is working properly is successfully designed and manufactured.

The results of the wear testing obtained by the apparatus which have been designed and manufactured in this work shows that the wear of the test specimen increases as the speed (rpm) of the motor increases.

And also, as the sliding distance increases,the wear decreases at constant load and speed.