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Wear behaviour of glass fiber reinforced polyester composites under dry friction and fluid film lubrication

  • Mihriban Korku

    MSc Mihriban Korku, graduated from Erciyes University in 2017 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. She received her MSc degree from Kocaeli University in the same department. She has been working as R&D engineer in Nicomatic since 2018. Her research interests include the areas of tribology and electrical connectors.

    and Erol Feyzullahoğlu

    Prof. Dr. Erol Feyzullahoğlu, was born in 1969, is presently working in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kocaeli University, Turkey. He obtained his undergraduate and graduate degrees in Mechanical Engineering Department of Yıldız Technical University and his doctoral degree in Mechanical Engineering Department of Kocaeli University. He has lectured in different engineering disciplines including Mechanical Engineering. His research interests include the areas of tribology, wear, machine elements and transport technique.

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Abstract

The use of composite materials, which are more economical and have better material properties, has become widespread in the industry lately. The glass fiber reinforced polyester composite materials constitute majority of composite materials produced in industry. Wear reduces working life of machine parts, affects their functions, and causes undesired deterioration, resulting in part separation over the contact surface. The machine parts produced from glass fiber reinforced polyester composite materials wear out because of exposure to dry friction and fluid film lubrication under different operating conditions. In this study, wear behaviours of glass fiber reinforced polyester composite materials under dry friction and fluid film lubrication conditions were investigated. The various results were obtained with this study. The wear resistances of samples in dry friction and fluid film lubrication conditions are like each other. The use of glass fiber, glass bead and plasticizer tensile additive in glass fiber reinforced polyester composite specimens is effective in improving the wear resistance of specimens.


Corresponding author: Erol Feyzullahoğlu, Faculty of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Department, 52980 Kocaeli University , Kocaeli 41380, Türkiye, E-mail:

About the authors

Mihriban Korku

MSc Mihriban Korku, graduated from Erciyes University in 2017 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. She received her MSc degree from Kocaeli University in the same department. She has been working as R&D engineer in Nicomatic since 2018. Her research interests include the areas of tribology and electrical connectors.

Erol Feyzullahoğlu

Prof. Dr. Erol Feyzullahoğlu, was born in 1969, is presently working in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kocaeli University, Turkey. He obtained his undergraduate and graduate degrees in Mechanical Engineering Department of Yıldız Technical University and his doctoral degree in Mechanical Engineering Department of Kocaeli University. He has lectured in different engineering disciplines including Mechanical Engineering. His research interests include the areas of tribology, wear, machine elements and transport technique.

Acknowledgment

The authors express their gratitude to Sami Tongün Glass Fiber Polyester Products-Türkiye for their generous support in material production. The authors would like to thank Dr. Alp Eren Şahin for his support with the roughness measurements.

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  2. Author contributions: The authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission. The details are presented at the end of the article.

  3. Competing interests: The authors state no conflict of interest.

  4. Research funding: None declared.

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