The influence of primary carbides and test parameters on abrasive and erosive wear of selected PM high speed steels

Abstract

The aim of this investigation has been to further the understanding of the contribution given by the primary carbides to the abrasive and erosive wear resistance of six HSS's, and to evaluate different test methods. With abrasives significantly harder than the primary carbides of the HSS's, two- and three-body abrasion rates showed only small variations with primary carbide volume fraction, size and type. However, using abrasives/erodants softer than the carbides the qualitative results were similar for the two- and three-body abrasion tests and for the erosion test, with the wear resistance increasing with the volume fraction primary carbides.