Wear characteristics of as-cast ZA-27/graphite particulate composites

Materials and Design

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 63-67

  Seah, K H W ^a   Sharma, S C ^b   Girish, B M ^b   Lim, S C ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b R V COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (India)

Author keywords

Composites; Graphite; Particulate; Wear; Zinc alloy

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION EFFECTS; GRAPHITE; LOADS (FORCES); MECHANICAL TESTING; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); WEAR OF MATERIALS; WEAR RESISTANCE; ZINC ALLOYS;

DRY CONDITIONS; PIN ON DISC SLIDING WEAR TESTING APPARATUS; SLIDING WEAR TESTS; SMEARING PROCESS; WEAR LOADS; WEAR RATE; WEAR ROTATIONAL TEST SPEEDS;

METALLIC MATRIX COMPOSITES;

COMPOSITES; GRAPHITE; WEAR; ZINC ALLOYS;

EID: 0030441161     PISSN: 02613069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0261-3069(96)00033-7     Document Type: Article

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