Dry sliding wear behaviour of organo-modified montmorillonite filled epoxy nanocomposites using Taguchi's techniques

Materials and Design

Volumn 32, Issue 8-9, 2011, Pages 4528-4536

  Rashmi, ^a   Renukappa, N M ^a   Suresha, B ^b   Devarajaiah, R M ^c   Shivakumar, K N ^d  

^a SRI JAYACHAMARAJENDRA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING   (India)

^c Department of Mechanical Engineering   (India)

^d North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University   (United States)

Author keywords

A. Composites; E. Wear; H. Weighting and ranking factors

Indexed keywords

CLAY MINERALS; NANOCOMPOSITES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRIBOLOGY; WEAR OF MATERIALS;

A. COMPOSITES; DRY SLIDING WEAR; E. WEAR; EPOXY NANOCOMPOSITES; H. WEIGHTING AND RANKING FACTORS; NANOFILLER; ORGANO-MODIFIED MONTMORILLONITES; ORTHOGONAL ARRAY; SEM; SLIDING DISTANCES; TAGUCHI; TRIBOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; WEAR MECHANISMS; WEAR RATES; WEAR TEST; WORN SURFACE;

WEAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 79957847329     PISSN: 02613069     EISSN: 18734197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2011.03.028     Document Type: Article

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