Code
01T03513
Duration
01 January 2014 → 30 June 2015
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Engineering and technology
- Process engineering
- Ceramic and glass materials
- Composites and hybrid materials
- Materials science and engineering
- Polymeric materials
- Semiconductor materials
- Other materials engineering
Keywords
nanofillers
wear
polymer composites
Project description
Polymer composites for tribological applications contain reinforcements and solid lubricants. Since some years nanoparticles have been introduced as a lubricant. The friction and wear behavior of PEEK filled with TiO2 and ZnS will be characterized by means of small scale tribotesting Wear mechanisms will be studied on-line with optical microscopic observation and postmortem SEM analysis.