Summary for wear test for hard chrome plating Discussion
Wear test for hard chrome plating is the main issue here: Budiarjo Tan asks how to evaluate small plated steel samples, already having done thickness and hardness tests, and wants a way to compare results to find the best plating conditions. The thread excerpt does not include a detailed technical answer, but it does point to a Taber Abrasion Tester as a possible wear-testing option for small objects. From the question, the practical need is for a wear method suitable for banana- or cucumber-sized parts, plus any additional tests that could help build a useful pattern or formula from the data. Based on the excerpt alone, the discussion centers on thickness, hardness, and wear as the core measurements for hard chrome plating on steel, with wear testing equipment selection depending on sample size.
Q. I’m doing a project on hard chrome plating on steel, and I’ve done experiments on various samples. I’ve also done the thickness and hardness tests.
What I’d like to know is, how would you do the wear test? Are there any particular test equipment for my samples with size of banana/cucumber (only small objects they are).
Also, I’m wondering if there are other tests for hard chrome plating on steel, other than thickness, hardness and wear tests; because what I want to achieve is some sort of formulae or pattern from the test results for the best hard chrome plating.
Thank you very much for the great help.
Budiarjo Tan
– Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2001
A. My first response is to guide you toward Taber Abrasion testing. There are several aerospace applications which require test samples to ensure process controls. The samples are generally 4″x4″x.060″. I will leave it to you to correlate the data.
Ira Donovan, M.S.F.
Kansas City, Missouri
A. The wear testing is done with a Taber abrasor; try that search term on the web. An additional test you might want to try is the Ollard adhesion test.
Ted Mooney, P.E.
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2001