Study on the Erosion Wear Behaviors of the PMMA Plates Impacted by Air Flow Containing Sands

Abstract:

The polymethymethacrylate (PMMA) plate was adopted as the test samples. The effects of impact angle, impact velocity, sand size on the erosion wear of the PMMA plates were experimentally investigated. The erosion mechanisms were also analyzed. The results showed that, the erosion volume increased nonlinearly with the increase of impact velocity, the inflection point appeared at around 13 m/s, and then the erosion volume increased rapidly. The erosion volume decreased nonlinearly as the impact angle increased. In our experiments, under the impact angle less than 60°, the smaller sand size could result in higher erosion wear. However, at 90°, the erosion volume by larger sands produced higher erosion. In fact, the erosion mechanism depends on the impact angle, at small impact angles, the main erosion mechanism is micro-cutting, and the erosion mechanism will mainly be impacting fatigue at large impact angles. At the medium impact angles, the erosion mechanism is the combination of the micro-cutting and impacting.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 631-632)
• Pages: 366-370
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.631-632.366
• Online since: January 2013
• Authors: Ting Xie, Gang Liu, Peng Fei Wang, Yan Guo Yin
• Keywords: Erosion, Impact Angle, Impact Velocity, Sand Size

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