TY - JOUR
T1 - Abrasive Wear Behavior of Al–4Cu–1.5Mg–WC Composites Synthesized through Powder Metallurgy
AU - Rodríguez-Cabriales, Gustavo
AU - Garay-Reyes, Carlos G.
AU - Guía-Tello, Juan C.
AU - Medrano-Prieto, Hansel M.
AU - Estrada-Guel, Ivanovich
AU - García-Hernández, Lilia J.
AU - Ruiz-Esparza-Rodríguez, Marco A.
AU - Mendoza-Duarte, José M.
AU - García-Aguirre, Karen A.
AU - Gonzalez Sanchez, Sergio
AU - Martínez-Sánchez, Roberto
N1 - Funding: This project was supported by a sector fund for education research (A1-S 32226). G. Rodríguez-Cabriales would like to thank Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT) for the scholarship awarded under grant no. 486512.
PY - 2023/2/27
Y1 - 2023/2/27
N2 - Different Al–4Cu–1.5Mg/WC composites were synthesized through powder metallurgy to establish the effect of WC particle addition on the abrasive wear behavior of an Al–4Cu–1.5Mg (wt. %) alloy. The wear tests were performed using a pin-on-disc tribometer at room temperature in dry conditions using SiC abrasive sandpaper as a counterbody and tribometer of linear configuration. The results showed that WC additions increase the hardness of the Al–4Cu–1.5Mg alloy due to the strengthening effect of particle dispersion in the aluminum matrix, which generates an improvement in the wear resistance of the composites by preventing direct contact of the sample with the counterbody, in turn delaying the plastic deformation phenomena responsible for the degradation sequence. In addition, the dominant wear mechanism was abrasive wear, and the increased friction coefficient did not bring a rapid wear rate, which was related to the enhanced deformation resistance due to the high hardness.
AB - Different Al–4Cu–1.5Mg/WC composites were synthesized through powder metallurgy to establish the effect of WC particle addition on the abrasive wear behavior of an Al–4Cu–1.5Mg (wt. %) alloy. The wear tests were performed using a pin-on-disc tribometer at room temperature in dry conditions using SiC abrasive sandpaper as a counterbody and tribometer of linear configuration. The results showed that WC additions increase the hardness of the Al–4Cu–1.5Mg alloy due to the strengthening effect of particle dispersion in the aluminum matrix, which generates an improvement in the wear resistance of the composites by preventing direct contact of the sample with the counterbody, in turn delaying the plastic deformation phenomena responsible for the degradation sequence. In addition, the dominant wear mechanism was abrasive wear, and the increased friction coefficient did not bring a rapid wear rate, which was related to the enhanced deformation resistance due to the high hardness.
KW - Al–Cu–Mg alloy
KW - WC
KW - aluminum matrix composites
KW - powder metallurgy
KW - abrasive wear
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85152245142
U2 - 10.3390/lubricants11030103
DO - 10.3390/lubricants11030103
M3 - Article
SN - 2075-4442
VL - 11
JO - Lubricants
JF - Lubricants
IS - 3
M1 - 103
ER -