MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS AND THEIR EROSIVE WEAR

Abstract

In this paper, the authors analyse the impact of selected mechanical properties of materials on their erosive wear caused by a steady stream of solid particles. A wear process is a function of the material properties of two materials that interact with each other in a given environment, i.e. the construction material and the particles that cause erosion. Erosive losses occur upon reaching a critical condition of damaging an element of the material’s surface under the influence of kinetic energy that result from incident particles of an abrasive material. It is proposed that the critical condition that accompanies the formation of erosion losses should be represented by the toughness (U) and the specific work of the deformation of the sample in the tensile strength test (W). The study involved the following materials: NC6, 42CrMo4, 20MnCr5, and S235JR.