Tribological Performance Improvement in Local Materials Reinforced Polymer Blend Hybrid Composites

To meet industrial requirements to prepare the material goods, continuous efforts are being made to improve the wear, mechanical, and thermal properties of polymeric materials. The research is carried out to create blend composites of polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), polyetheretherketone (PEEK), and boron nitride (BN) and dramatically enhance their mechanical and wear capabilities via inclusion of one of the local materials of aluminum oxide (Al ₂ O ₃ ) 0.2 wt.%, to manufacture the material goods. The blend hybrid composites have been produced via hot compression and solution mixture. At applied loads of 10 and 20 N, for the blend polymer, the wear rates were 4.29×10 ^− 4 and 4.15×10 ^− 3 mm³/Nm and for BPA ₄ , 1.25×10 ^− 6 and 7.5×10 ^− 6 mm³/Nm, showing improvements of about 98.02% and 98.6%, respectively. In contrast, the wear rates for BPA ₆ were 2.08×10 ^− 5 and 3.89×10 ^− 4 mm³/Nm at 10 and 20 N, respectively. In addition, the exertion forces at 100 mN for BPA ₄ exhibited enhanced durability and modulus of elasticity of 230% and 225% respectively, compared to the blend polymer. In contrast to the blend polymer with 5wt% of BN, the blend hybrid composite demonstrated increments of roughly 78% and 107% at 100 mN. The results of this research work demonstrated that the material characteristics of the blend polymer with BN, in contrast to other composite materials, may be further improved by adding 0.2wt% Al ₂ O ₃ for a variety of highly sophisticated material goods manufacturing applications.