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Physical, Mechanical, and Tribological Assessment of High Manganese-Silicon Steel Alloys

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The present paper reports the study on manganese-silicon steel cast through a clean liquid metallurgical route; in order to assess the tribological behaviour of the steel, the solidified ingots were subjected to heat treatments, such as annealing, ice water quenching, followed by ageing the quenched steel at 550 °C, 600 °C, 650 °C and 700 °C for two hours. For evaluation of hardness, tensile strength and sliding wear properties; the desired samples were prepared as per usual standards. The best combination of the ultimate tensile strength (476.83 MPa), microhardness (252.23 HV), and mean specific wear rate of 2.269E-05 mm3/N-m is achieved for alloy 1 after ageing at 650 °C. Fractography of broken tensile samples and microstructural characterization of worn-out surfaces are carried out by scanning electron microscopy (SEM); these have aided in the determination of the dominant wear mechanism and mode of fracture during tensile loading. The mixed-mode fracture is predominantly observed in most of the fractured surfaces, and the dominant wear mechanism is found to be adhesive wear. Moreover, X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis has shown the presence of phases like austenite, α' martensite, ɛ martensite, along with AlNi3, Ni2Al3, and M2C precipitates.

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The authors would like to express their heartfelt gratitude towards the Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC), Ministry of Education, Government of India, for funding the project. The authors would also like to acknowledge the Advanced research lab for Tribology (ARLT) and Materials Research Centre (MRC), Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, India, for providing the necessary fabrication and testing facilities.

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This work is supported by Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC), Ministry of Education, Government of India.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, Jaipur, India

    B. P. Harsha & Amar Patnaik

  2. Research Chair, Suresh Gyan Vihar University Jaipur, Jaipur, India

    Malay Kumar Banerjee

  3. Materials Science and Technology, TU Wien Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Ernst Kozeschnik

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All the authors have contributed to the study conception and design. Material preparation, data collection and analysis are performed by Harsha Basappa Prakash, Amar Patnaik, Malay Kumar Banerjee, and Ernst Kozeschnik.

Harsha Basappa Prakash: Conceptualization, methodology, investigation, and writing- original draft preparation.

Amar Patnaik: Resources, writing- reviewing, editing, validation, and supervision.

Malay Kumar Banerjee: Revised the manuscript critically for important intellectual content along with editing, validating, and supervision.

Ernst Kozeschnik: Formal analysis, visualization, and supervision.

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Harsha, B.P., Patnaik, A., Banerjee, M.K. et al. Physical, Mechanical, and Tribological Assessment of High Manganese-Silicon Steel Alloys. Silicon 15, 3305–3322 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12633-022-02260-y

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