A review on Wear Behaviour of clutch plate madeof PEEK Composite Material

Abstract

The conventional clutch plate made of carbon fiber and ceramic mixture of copper, iron, tin bronze, silicon dioxide, and/or graphite, typical alloy is a lamellar pearlitic gray iron like G11H20b of which, it can be replaced by developing of new materials for reducing the wear rate of the clutch plate the materials chosen is Poly Ether Ether Ketone (PEEK) based composites mixed with silicon carbide powder shows better results in which it can be manufactured by the injection moulding process and it is tested in Friction and wear experiment wear run under constant temperature in a pin-on-disc arrangement, PEEK and its composites used in this investigated the friction coefficient decreases with the increasing load on PEEK. The composite showed a very low friction coefficient and wear rate increase in the normal applied load sliding distance decreases wear rate. Further the wear and friction behaviour decreases with increases the gradually by addition of fillers.