Wear Analysis of Clad Developed On Plain Carbon Steel Using Microwave Heating and A-Tig Welding Process Akshay Pathania and Sashank Thapa

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Wear Analysis of clad developed on plain carbon steel using Microwave Heating

and A-Tig Welding Process


Akshay Pathania and Sashank Thapa
Wear is the foremost problem leading to numerous replacement of engineering components in
many industries. Wear is the actual exclusion of surface material due to the frictional force
between two mating surfaces. This can result in a change in component dimension which can
lead to slackness and subsequent inappropriate operation. In present work, mild steel is chosen as
a base material to improve its wear properties because it is widely acceptable material for
engineering components. The widely acceptability of this material is due to the cheap cost, ease
machinability, deformability and weldability etc. However, the wear properties of mild steel are
very poor which leads to catastrophic failure of the component during service. Hence, it is
important to improve the surface properties of mild steel, so as it can effectively work in harsh
working environment. The surface engineering techniques refers to area which is used to
improve the surface properties of metallic and nonmetallic material and increase the working life
of the components. Among various surface modification techniques Microwave energy cladding
and TIG cladding has been chosen to develop the clad and analysis of wear performance between
these two techniques has been shown.

The main objective of the present research is to develop a new cost effective as well as
green technique for producing coatings/claddings of metal-based materials using a nonconventional source of energy (microwave) which offer variety of advantages while
compared to the conventional processes.
To improve the mechanical and metallurgical properties of the most used engineering
material in industries.
The microwave clads showed good metallurgical bonding with substrate by partial
mutual diffusion of elements.
The wear resistance of microwave processed clad has been increased by almost 220 times
of mild steel at 1.5 Kg and 1.5 m/s.
The microwave cladding has been successfully carried out on 900 W at 2.45 GHz at 360
seconds on domestic microwave oven.

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