Experimental Study on Wear Behaviour of Sic Filled Hybrid Composites Using Taguchi Method

The popularity of composite materials usage is increasing due to its superior strength characters racing the traditional materials in strength to weight ratio. The developments of new materials are on the anvil and are growing day by day. In this work, two-body abrasive wear test with different loads and abrading distances were performed at room temperature by using a pin on a disk apparatus to determine the surface hardness strength of SiC filled Glass fiber reinforced with epoxy resin hybrid composites. The results showed that the wear volume increased with increasing abrading distance and the specific wear rate decreased with increasing abrading distance and increased with load for SiC particle filled Hybrid composites. Among the filled Hybrid composites tested, composites with 10% SiC by weight showed a better tribological behavior result. Also, a taguchi’s experimental design approach to make a parametric analysis of wear behavior of 10% SiCG-J-E, 10%SiCG-S-E and 10% SiCG-R-E.hybrid composites were studied. The systematic experimentation leads to identification of significant process parameters and material variables that predominantly influence the specific wear rate.