A comparative study of waste eggshells, CaCO3, and SiC-reinforced AA2014 green metal matrix composites

2016 ◽  
Vol 51 (17) ◽  
pp. 2407-2421 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shashi Prakash Dwivedi ◽  
Satpal Sharma ◽  
Raghvendra Kumar Mishra

The influences of weight percentage of different reinforcement particles such as SiC particles, waste uncarbonized eggshell particles, carbonized eggshell particles, and CaCO3 powder were compared in the processing of aluminium-based metal matrix composite. The results revealed that by the addition of SiC particles up to 10 wt.% and waste eggshell particles up to 12.5 wt.% in AA2014 matrix alloy, the tensile strength, hardness, and fatigue strength increased. Toughness and ductility decreased by the addition of SiC and eggshell particles in AA2014 matrix alloy. Corrosion rate decreased by the addition of SiC particle up to 7.5 wt.% and eggshell particles up to 12.5 wt.%. Results showed that hardness and heat-treatable properties are improved after the addition of SiC reinforcement particles in AA2014 aluminium alloy as compared to eggshell particles. However, porosity and overall cost increased after addition of SiC particles in AA2014 alloy. Corrosion rate increased after the heat treatment for all reinforced metal matrix composite. These results showed that using the carbonized eggshell as reinforcement in the AA2014 alloy gave better physical properties at lower cost as compared to SiC particles. Proper wettability was observed between matrix and reinforcement material for both carbonized eggshell particles and SiC particles. No wettability was observed between AA2014 alloy and CaCO3 reinforcement particles. Poor wettability reduced the mechanical properties of AA2014/CaCO3 metal matrix composite.

Author(s):  
M. G. Burke ◽  
M. N. Gungor ◽  
P. K. Liaw

Aluminum-based metal matrix composites offer unique combinations of high specific strength and high stiffness. The improvement in strength and stiffness is related to the particulate reinforcement and the particular matrix alloy chosen. In this way, the metal matrix composite can be tailored for specific materials applications. The microstructural characterization of metal matrix composites is thus important in the development of these materials. In this study, the structure of a p/m 2014-SiC particulate metal matrix composite has been examined after extrusion and tensile deformation.Thin-foil specimens of the 2014-20 vol.% SiCp metal matrix composite were prepared by dimpling to approximately 35 μm prior to ion-milling using a Gatan Dual Ion Mill equipped with a cold stage. These samples were then examined in a Philips 400T TEM/STEM operated at 120 kV. Two material conditions were evaluated: after extrusion (80:1); and after tensile deformation at 250°C.


2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shashi Prakash Dwivedi ◽  
Satpal Sharma ◽  
Raghvendra Kumar Mishra

AbstractChicken eggshell (ES) is an aviculture by-product that has been listed worldwide as one of the worst environmental problems. The effective utilisation of ES biowaste is strongly encouraged in our society due to environmental and economic reasons. The aluminium alloy (AA) 2014/5 wt% carbonised ES metal matrix composite used in this study was fabricated by electromagnetic stir casting technique at parameters of 12 A (current), 180 s (time) and 700°C (matrix pouring temperature), respectively, and immediately extruded on universal testing machine at 60 MPa using cylindrical H13 tool steel die coated with graphite to avoid upper flow of ES particles and to improve wettability of carbonised ES with AA2014 alloy. Microstructures of composites show uniform distribution of carbonised ES particles. Density and overall cost of the metal matrix composite decreases 3.57% and 5%, respectively, when carbonised ES particulate is added 5% by weight. Tensile strength, hardness, toughness and fatigue strength of AA2014/5 wt% carbonized eggshell composite were also measured. Results show an improvement in these mechanical properties with addition of ES in the matrix alloy.


Author(s):  
Padmavathi K R ◽  
Ramakrishnan R ◽  
Karthikeyan L ◽  
ChezhianBabu S

Researchers investigated the mechanical properties of Aluminium Metal Matrix Composites (AMMC) with several reinforcements and negligible work has been administered on analysing the mechanical characteristics of AMMC with rutile nanotitania reinforcement material. Metal matrix composite with Aluminium 6061 metallic element as matrix material and nanotitania as reinforcement with 0.5, 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0 weight percentages was fabricated through stir casting method followed by die casting and heat treatment. Consequent exploration on mechanical characteristics viz. micro hardness, tensile, compressive and impact strength were carried out. The fabricated samples were examined using scanning electron microscopy and analysed. The outcomes exhibited enhanced mechanical characteristics for 1.0 weight percentage nanotitania reinforced aluminium6061 metal matrix composite material.


Author(s):  
R. Sathishbabu ◽  
P.K. Dash ◽  
R. Santhanakrishnan ◽  
S. Sathish

In this paper, an experimental based investigation of mechanical properties of SiC particles reinforced aluminium metal matrix composite (AMMC) manufactured by liquid metallurgy process has been carried out. The ultrasonic technique has been used for characterisation of material properties by correlating the attenuation of ultrasonic velocity with the amount of particle reinforcements. The amount of SiC particle loading has influenced the ultrasonic velocity at both manufacturing stage and forging test. The material properties like tensile strength, elongation percentage, hardness, wear resistance, impact strength and strength under different forging conditions have been significantly influenced by the weight percentage of SiC particles. The failure of AMMC specimens were characterized through SEM analysis.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vipin Sharma ◽  
Yogesh Dewang ◽  
Pardeep Kumar Nagpal ◽  
Suresh Kumar

Abstract Metal matrix composites are an important class of material that is developing rapidly to fulfil the diversified engineering requirements. The metal matrix composites are attractive owing to superior properties as compared to monolithic material. Their properties are dependent on various factors and fabrication techniques. The metal matrix composites are associated with several issues which hinder their full potential. In the present study friction stir processing is applied on the metal matrix composite as a post-processing operation. The friction stir processing offers many advantages owing to the solid-state nature of the processing. Stir cast metal matrix composites are prepared by using zircon sand particles of 50 µm in the matrix of LM13 aluminium alloy. The friction stir processing is applied on the metal matrix plates at a constant rotational speed and traverse speed of 1400 rpm and 63 mm/min, respectively. Multiple passes of friction stir processing are applied to elucidate the effect of the number of passes on microstructural modification. Microstructural examination showed a significant improvement in eutectic silicon morphology and distribution of zircon sand particles. A more than 5 times reduction as compared to the initial size was observed in the zircon sand particles after four passes of friction stir processing. The processed metal matrix composite also exhibits improvement in tensile strength and hardness.


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Senthil Kumaran Selvaraj ◽  
Kathiravan Srinivasan ◽  
Utkarsh Chadha ◽  
Rajat Mishra ◽  
Kurane Arpit ◽  
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Graphical AbstractA Brief Review of the Ultrasonic welding process flow and sequence for joining aluminium metal matrix composite.


2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 423-434
Author(s):  
Mohammed T. Hayajneh ◽  
Mohammed A. Almomani ◽  
Mu’ayyad M. Al-Shrida

AbstractChicken eggshell (Es) waste is an industrial byproduct, and its disposal constitutes a severe environmental risk. Eggshell is a new engineering reinforcement retaining excellent properties such as low density, renewable, eco-friendly, and high thermal stability. The current research aims to study the effects of eggshell particles addition on microstructures, mechanical and tribological properties of aluminium/eggshell green metal matrix composites (MMCs). In the present work Al–Es metal matrix composite is produced by powder metallurgy processes. SEM with EDX and XRD were used to examine the microstructures and the compounds that arise during the sintering process of the produced composites. Six tests were conducted on the produced samples including; dry wear test, micro Vickers hardness, and ultimate compressive strength. The results showed that the addition of 3 wt. % of eggshell improved wear resistance (65%), compressive strength (40%) and hardness (15%). At 6 and 9 wt. % of eggshell, negative results appeared.


2019 ◽  
Vol 895 ◽  
pp. 96-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
B.N. Sharath ◽  
K.S. Madhu ◽  
C.V. Venkatesh

In the present scenario aluminium is an useful metal due its admirable properties such as light weight, low cost and excellent thermal conductivity.In order to take advantages of these properties aluminium is being used to make the metal matrix composites for tribological application, In this present investigation effort has been made to assess the wear properties of Al–B4C–Gr metal matrix composite at various temperatures such as 323° K, 373° K and 423° K. Al–B4C–Gr Hybrid metal matrix composites were fabricated by stir casting technique. The influence of parameters like load, speed, distance and temperature on the wear rate was investigated. A plan of experiments, based on Taguchi model with L27 orthogonal array and analysis of variance was employed to investigate the influence of process parameters on the wear behaviour of these hybrid metal matrix composites. The wear resistance increased with increasing temperature, but wear resistance decreased at higher loads. It was observed that the abrasive wear is dominates while sliding as observed by SEM analysis of worn out specimens.


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