Wear Characteristics of Polypropylene Nano Caco3 Composite

Toady Nanocomposites have recently become attractive to researchers, engineers and scientists. Polypropylene is one of the widely used material in automotive and baking industry, because of its high mechanical properties like increased tensile strength, young's modulus. Polypropylene when combined with calcium carbonate (caco₃), its properties may get increased. Though it has many advantages over many other materials, it has its main disadvantages over its application on automobiles. Wear is one of the important parameter which affects the effectiveness of polypropylene. In this study we try to combine the Polypropylene either Nanomaterial say calcium carbonate (caco₃), to reduce the wear during its wages. The specimen is prepared by using injection molding method. And the specimen is subjected to wear test in pin-on-disc wear test machine at various velocity load. The scanning electron microscope (SEM) and stand of distance result were compared to study their morphological properties.