Experimental investigation and analysis evaluations of the wear condition of AISI H13 material
Özgün Yurdakul, Aptullah Karakaş, Bülent Acar
Abstract. In metal forming processes, wear phenomenon on die parts plays a major role for many purposes like life estimation of the die usage and output workpiece surface quality. In general, tool steel AISI H13 is generally used for object since combination of wear resistance and strength with toughness. For that purpose, to observe the behavior of the wear property of the AISI H13 steel, micro scratch test that is rarely studied in the literature for wear purposes has been studied in this work for observation of the wear phenomenon in micro scale. Furthermore, finite element analysis has been done for this test to establishing a correlation between experimental results and simulations to obtaining possibility to observation varied scenarios based on altered parameters. In this purpose, Archard’s wear equation is based to observation of wear behavior. After experimental data has been obtained with micro scratch tests, wear behavior of output of the finite element analysis shows equivalence with experimental results.
Keywords
AISI H13 Steel, Micro Scratch Test, Archard’s Wear Equation, Finite Element Analysis
Published online 5/7/2025, 9 pages
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Citation: Özgün Yurdakul, Aptullah Karakaş, Bülent Acar, Experimental investigation and analysis evaluations of the wear condition of AISI H13 material, Materials Research Proceedings, Vol. 54, pp 1087-1095, 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21741/9781644903599-118
The article was published as article 118 of the book Material Forming
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