Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina 2023, 25(3):B215-B227 | DOI: 10.26552/com.C.2023.056

Comparative Analysis of Hybrid Composites Based on A356 and ZA-27 Alloys regarding Their Tribological Behaviour

Blaža Stojanović ORCID...1, Sandra Gajević ORCID...1,*, Nenad Miloradović ORCID...1, Ružica Nikolić ORCID...2, Slavica Miladinović ORCID...1, Petr Svoboda ORCID...3, Aleksandar Vencl ORCID...4
1 University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Engineering, Kragujevac, Serbia
2 Research Centre, University of Zilina, Zilina, Slovakia
3 Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czechia
4 University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Belgrade, Serbia

The comparative analysis of the two hybrid composites, obtained by the compocasting process, based on A356 and ZA-27 alloys and reinforced with 10 wt. % SiC and 0, 1 and 3 wt. % graphite (Gr) is presented. Optimisation of their tribological behaviour was performed by the Taguchi method and the artificial neural network (ANN). Tribological tests were performed on a block-on-disk tribometer, at three sliding speeds, three normal loads and a sliding distance of 600 m, without lubrication. Results obtained by the ANOVA showed that the hybrid composites based on A356 alloy have the better wear resistance and that the composite reinforced with 10 wt. % SiC and 1 wt. % Gr has the lowest wear rate. The lowest coefficient of friction was obtained for a composite based on ZA-27 alloy reinforced with 10 wt. % SiC, at a normal load of 10 N and sliding speed of 1 m/s.

Keywords: wear, hybrid composites, A356, ZA-27, Taguchi design, artificial neural network
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This paper presents the research results obtained within realisation of the project TR 35021, supported by the Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia. Aleksandar Vencl acknowledges the project financially supported by the Republic of Serbia, Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation (Contract No. 451-03-47/2023-01/200105). Ruzica Nikolic acknowledges the project "Innovative Solutions for Propulsion, Power and Safety Components of Transport Vehicles", code ITMS 313011V334 of the Operational Program Integrated Infrastructure 2014-2020 co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund. Petr Svoboda acknowledges the project FSI-S-23-8245, funded by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic. Collaboration through the CEEPUS network CIII-BG-0703 and bilateral Project 337-00-577/2021-09/16 between Republic of Serbia and Republic of Austria is also acknowledged.

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The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Received: April 25, 2023; Accepted: June 19, 2023; Prepublished online: June 27, 2023; Published: July 11, 2023  Show citation

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Stojanović, B., Gajević, S., Miloradović, N., Nikolić, R., Miladinović, S., Svoboda, P., & Vencl, A. (2023). Comparative Analysis of Hybrid Composites Based on A356 and ZA-27 Alloys regarding Their Tribological Behaviour. Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina, 25(3), B215-227. doi: 10.26552/com.C.2023.056
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