The Investigation of Tribological Properties of Thermal Aged Cual10fe Alloys
Zülküf BALALAN Furkan SARSILMAZ Anıl İMAK Niyazi ÖZDEMİR Ömer Ekinci
AbstractIn this work, thermal cycles were applied to samples of CuAl10Fe aluminum bronze alloy which are commonly used in marine hardware, shipping and journal bearings. The samples were maintained in heat treatment furnace at 950 oC (for 30 minutes) and cooled after than subjected to aging process by storing in heat treatment furnace (at 100 oC and 150 oC) for different times (8, 10 and 12 hours). Therefore, aged samples of the data on microhardness and wear resistance values were compared to non-aged base sample depending on the microstructural transformation. As a consequence of this, there is an important increasing at aged samples of microhardness and wear resistance values when comparing with non-aged base sample.