Code
01T01511
Duration
01 September 2011 → 30 June 2013
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Engineering and technology
- Ceramic and glass materials
- Materials science and engineering
- Semiconductor materials
- Other materials engineering
Keywords
ceramic composites
friction
wear
tribochemistry
Project description
The project aims at developing new geometric wear models to establish wear curves of spehrical-plane contacts of ultrahard ceramic materials such as WC, ZrO2, ZrB2, SiC, TiB2, and B4. Oxidation and chemical processes and their influence on friction and wear of those materials in high temperature environment (>600°) will be investigated by means of high temperature pin-on-disk tribotesting and surface analysis.