Study of Wear Behaviour and Temperature Variation of Mild Steel under Different Surface Treatments using Disc-on-Disc type Rolling Wear Analysis Machine

Abrasive wear of engineering, agricultural machine components and in food processing machinery caused by the abrasive particles is a major industrial problem. Therefore, a full understanding of the effects of all system variables on the abrasive wear rates is important in order to improve design of the machinery and the choice of materials to control wear. The present research work is undertaken to development and testing of disc-on-disc type rolling wear analysis machine. This machine is designed and patented by Dr. SIRAJ AHMED. (Professor, MANIT, BHOPAL). This work is carried out further development and testing of disc-on-disc type rolling wear analysis machine. This machine is used to analysis of rolling wear behaviour of materials. Present work consist of testing of mild steel specimens under different surface treatment conditions like hammer peening, carburized (6 hrs.) and carburized (12 hrs.) and compared with virgin specimen. These specimens are tested under 5 and 10 kg load and wear behaviour is studied. Each specimen is tested on machine for 20 hrs. Study of temperature variation is also studied under different loading conditions and different surface treatments.