An effort is made to develop stir casted low cost Babbitt/Ilmenite composite under controlled conditions and to carry out experimental investigation and optimization of the tribo-mechanical properties of the fabricated composite using Taguchi philosophy. The improvement in the tribo-mechanical characteristics of the Babbitt/Ilmenite composite at the optimized conditions in comparison to the Tin-Babbitt alloy is reported in the book. There is an ever increasing demand of low cost high performance novel materials in cutting-edge engineering applications. The results reported in the paper would...

Babbitt-Ilmenite composite is fabricated via stir casting under controlled conditions.The process variables which include percentage weight of reinforcement,stirring speed ,aging time,applied load,sliding distance and sliding speed were optimized for enhancing the tribo-mechanical properties of the composite using Taguchi philosophy.The response variables include mechanical properties such as Hardness,Impact strength , tensile strength and tribological properties include wear loss and coefficient of friction. Taguchi orthogonal arrays were designed using MINITAB software to maximize the...