ENV 1071-6:2002

Advanced technical ceramics - Methods of test for ceramic coatings - Part 6: Determination of the abrasion resistance of coatings by a micro-abrasion wear test

Publication date:   Jan 30, 2004

Scope

1 Scope
1.1 This part of ENV 1071 describes a method of measuring the abrasive wear rate of ceramic coatings by means of a micro-abrasion wear test based on the well known crater grinding technique used for film thickness determination - see ENV 1071-2.
1.2 The method can provide data on both film and substrate wear rates, either by performing two separate tests or by careful analysis of the data from a single test series.
1.3 The test method may be applied to samples with planar or non-planar surfaces but the analysis described in clause 11 applies only to flat samples. For non-planar samples a more complicated analysis, possibly requiring the use of numerical methods, is required.