The working face of the
bucket tooth contact with the material to be excavated. In a complete mining process, different stages of their work has different force conditions. When the tooth tip contact with the material surface, the tooth tip is shocked strongly because of the quick speed. If the bucket tooth is low-intensity, it will be plastic deformation in the tip. With the increased digging depth, bucket teeth force will change. When bucket teeth is cutting materials , teeth and materials move relatively, it will produce large positive squeeze pressure. So it will produce larger friction between tooth face and materials. If the material is hard rock blocks or concrete, the friction will be large. The front face is significantly greater than the pressure on the after face. According to the front face is worn seriously, we can know the main external mechanical factors of tooth failure is positive pressure and friction, and it play an important role in the process of generating failure.
We take two specimens from before and after working face and polish them, then take hardness test. We find there is large difference hardness on the same specimen, and preliminary judgment is inhomogeneous materials. After the specimen is ground, polished, corrosion, you will find obvious boundary on each specimen, only difference is the boundary position.
From the macro perspective,the surrounding is light gray but the central is dark. So it may be inlay casting. Look from the surface, the surrounding should also be insert block. We found that the difference is obvious after taking hardness test on both sides of the border with HRS-150 digital Rockwell hardness tester and MHV-2000digital micro hardness tester. Through above analysis, it indicates that bucket teeth are inlaid caking. The closed portion is insert and the surrounding is matrix. Both ingredients are closed. Mechanical properties of metallic materials depend on the material composition and heat treatment process. The composition is similar and the hardness is different, so the bucket teeth put into use without heat treatment. Observation of tissue is also proved this point.