Implementation of Taguchi design for dry sliding wear of high density polyethylene/silicon carbide composite Anwendung des Taguchi-Designs für den Trockengleitverschleiß von Polyethylen/Siliziumkarbid-Verbundwerkstoffen hoher Dichte

Abstract

The present work focus on the optimization of dry sliding wear behavior operating parameters of high density polyethylene/silicon carbide composites carried out with Taguchi method. The various control factors such as filler content, applied load and sliding velocity were selected at three different levels of each. The specific wear rate and coefficient of friction were selected as performance output. The dry sliding wear studies revealed that the coefficient of friction increases with an increase in applied load and sliding velocity. The specific wear rate for all composites increased with an increase in applied force. Nine experimental runs were performed using Taguchi L9 orthogonal array. The optimum control factors were predicted according to the MINITAB16 software. Analysis of variance has been applied to predict the highly significant operating parameter. The analysis of variance analysis revealed that the applied load is the most important control factor out of all the other control factors, followed by filler content and sliding velocity, of dry sliding wear behavior of high density polyethylene/silicon carbide composites.