Tribo Performance Analysis of Polyester Composite Filled with Blast Furnace Slag

In the present work Blast Furnace Slag (BSF) filled polyester composite with filler content from zero to thirty weight percentage have been arranged in order to improve the erosion wear and mechanical properties of polyester. Erosion wear test was led utilizing Air Jet Erosion Test. Composites having zero, ten, twenty, and thirty weight percentage of BFS reinforced polyester are prepared inside the research facility by utilizing a self-designed mould. Each one of the tests was led according to given standard. It was discovered that wear and mechanical properties are increasing comprehensively when filler content increases. Micro-Hardness increases about four times for filler content 30 weight% with the neat polyester. The enrichment in these properties is identified with vigorous holding between the BFS and Polyester which could have happened due to arrangement of an interphase between the BFS and polyester-grid. Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and predictive methods give the erosion rate not more than 15% with the experimental one.