TRIBO BEHAVIOUR OF POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES (MODELLING AND EXPERIMENTS) | ||
| The International Conference on Applied Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering | ||
| Article 143, Volume 13, 13th International Conference on Applied Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering., May 2008, Pages 49-59 PDF (355.27 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/amme.2008.39825 | ||
| Authors | ||
| GNANAMOORTHY R.; SRINATH S. | ||
| Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600 036, India. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| ABSTRACT Addition of nanosize reinforcements to polymer matrix is a recent approach to improve the matrix strength and modulus and widen the application of polymers and their composites for many structural applications. Polymer nanocomposites are new specialty plastic compounds, which have reinforcement having at least one dimension in the nanometre scale (10-9 m) in a polymer matrix. Many researchers have reported the significant increase in the strength and modulus due to the addition of nanoparticles. The tribo behaviour of an engineering material is another aspect that needs to be understood clearly and decides the performance of many engineering components such as gears, bearings etc. This paper describes the tribo behaviour of polyamide base nanocomposites. The analytical model developed to predict the coefficient of friction is also described. | ||
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