OPTIMIZATION OF EFFECT OF PRODUCTION PARAMETERS ON WEAR RESISTANCE OF COATED LAYER ON THE SURFACE OF COPPER ALLOY BY TAGUCHI METHOD

Metallurgy and Materials Engineering

In this study, a coated layer with ferromanganese is obtained with using the tungsten inert gas (TIG) method on the copper alloy surface. And, this layer is subjected to a wear test. Statistical analysis of wear test results are performed using ANOVA and Taguchi methods The samples are subjected to a surface layer using different current levels of 115 A, 125 A and 140 A. Adherent wear test is carried out under dry conditions of the coated samples under the force of 20N, 40N and 60N and at different sliding distance of 100 m to 500 m. In addition, experimental design is carried out with L27 (33) Taguchi orthogonal array. ANOVA and F-test are applied from the statistical methods to determine the level of importance of the experimental parameters (force, current and sliding distance) over the wear amount. The statistical results show that the wear amount is decreased with increasing current level, and the wear amount is increased with increasing slip distance and the force in adhesive wear test.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.