The complexity of the processing of polymeric materials and ways to solve it
The article shows the relevance of using polymer materials, their advantage over metal structures is shown. A distinctive feature is the thermal conductivity of polymeric materials and the heterogeneous composition of the fillers. The difficulty in processing polymer composite materials with hard alloy tools lies in the rapid heating of hard alloys to critical temperatures and their subsequent oxidation in air. This affects tool wear. The paper proposes to reduce tool wear due to the creation of a protective coating by electrospark alloying.