The correlation of material characteristics and wear in a laboratory scale cone crusher

The performance of composite materials was studied in a laboratory scale cone crusher wear test. Correlations between the wear behaviour and microstructure parameters, such as volume fraction and the size of the hard particles and spacing between hard particles were investigated. It was found that the most important parameters in this wear environment were the total volume fraction of the hard phase and the type of the hard phase. A necessary feature of the matrix material is that it is also resistant to abrasion.