scholarly journals Recent Progress in Hybrid Aluminum Composite: Manufacturing and Application

Metals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 1919
Author(s):  
Elvira Wahyu Arum Fanani ◽  
Eko Surojo ◽  
Aditya Rio Prabowo ◽  
Hammar Ilham Akbar

Due to their excellent properties, the requirement for materials with higher characteristics has transformed primary alloy into composite materials. Composites are particularly essential for various applications in numerous engineering purposes because of their superior mechanical, physical, and machining qualities. Compared to traditional materials, aluminum composite has various advantages and superior characteristics. To reduce production costs and obtain the desired properties, the researchers developed a hybrid aluminum matrix composite (HAMC), an AMC with two or more types of reinforcement. Further studies were conducted to improve the qualities and manufacturing processes of composites to improve their properties. Various methods are available to HAMC manufacturing, and different manufacturing methods result in different characteristics of HAMC composites, viewed from physical properties, mechanical properties, and production cost. In addition, differences in the type, size, and amount of reinforcement produce various hybrid composite properties, especially in the physical properties, mechanical properties, and tribological behavior of HAMC. This work presents a comprehensive review of recent progress in HAMC study with various reinforcement particles, manufacturing techniques, physical, mechanical, and tribological properties of HAMC. On the other side, this work provides discussion for application, challenges, and future work conducted for HAMC development.

Metals ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 709
Author(s):  
Jufu Jiang ◽  
Guanfei Xiao ◽  
Yingze Liu ◽  
Ying Wang ◽  
Xi Nie

Semisolid billet of the 7075 aluminum matrix composite reinforced with nano-sized SiC particles was first fabricated by an ultrasonic-assisted semisolid stirring method and rheoforming technology. Then it was thixoformed into a cylinder part under different remelting temperatures and soak times. The effects of the remelting temperature and soaking time on the mechanical properties and microstructure of the thixoformed composite part were investigated. The results show that parts of good quality were thixoformed successfully. The microstructure of the top side wall of the thixoformed part consisted of near spheroidal grains. A large quantity of elongated grains occurred in the medium and bottom side walls and the bottom itself. With increasing remelting temperatures, the size of the solid grains of the thixoformed parts showed a trend of first to increase and afterwards to decrease. High density dislocations were found in the microstructure when the remelting temperatures were 590 °C and 600 °C. When the soaking time was 15 min, the severest deformation occurred in the thixoformed part. High mechanical properties of the thixoformed parts were achieved under conditions such as a remelting temperature between 590 °C and 600 °C and a soaking time between 10 min and 15 min. The fracture mode of the thixoformed part changed from transgranular fracture to intergranular fracture when the remelting temperature was elevated from 580 °C to 610 °C. After the thixoformed parts were treated by T6, the ultimate tensile strength (UTS) and elongation of the side wall were improved to 552 MPa and 7.9%, respectively. Dispersed MgZn2 precipitates created by T6 heat treatment led to an improvement of the mechanical properties.


2018 ◽  
Vol 941 ◽  
pp. 2018-2023
Author(s):  
Paul Royes ◽  
Nicolas Masquelier ◽  
Thierry Breville ◽  
David Balloy

Aluminum-Carbon nanoFibers (CNF) composites produce by stir casting process present a yield strengths (YS) and an ultimate tensile strength (UTS) improved up to 33%. The hardening of the Al-CNF composite was considered as the sum of elementary contributions of effects: natural hardness of pure Al; grain size; dislocation density; elements in solid solution; CNF. In order to quantify CNF effect, calculation was performed to quantify the contribution to yield strength of each other’s mechanisms. This theoretical calculation was compared to experimental results and the real effect of CNF on yield strength increase was estimated between 10 and 16%. Figure SEQ Figure \* ARABIC 1: Graphical Abstract (copper dots on CNF / stir casting process / contributions to hardening) Keywords: Aluminum matrix composite; copper-coated carbon nanofibers; liquid metallurgy elaboration; mechanical properties; hardening effect


2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-101
Author(s):  
Shuib Pasha S A ◽  
Nayeem Ahmed M ◽  
Tilak S R ◽  
Anil Kumar B N

Composite materials are defined as material systems consisting of mixture of or combination of two or more micro constituents insoluble in each other and differing in form and or material composition. In this study Metal Matrix Composite (MMCs) has been produced using stir casting method for performing the mechanical properties. Most of the engineering industries want light and better mechanical properties of components; this can be achieved by MMCs of Aluminium because of its excellent performance. In this research work we fabricate the Aluminium by liquid route. Here Al 7075 is used as a base metal and Multi Walled Carbon Nanotubes (MWCNT) used as sub metal with various percentages. Experiments were conducted to analyze microstructure, hardness & tensile strength. By using optical microscope and Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) we analyze the sample specimens are well dispersion in MWCNT with AA 7075. Hardness and tensile strength increases with increasing of wt. %. Hardness of material increases with increase in percentages of MWCNT, whereas tensile strength of the material increases with increase in percentages of MWCNT and Elongation reduces


Author(s):  
Basuki Widodo ◽  
Agung Panji Sasmito

Aluminum is a widely used and applied material in daily life or in the industrial and automotive world. In order to improve the performance and properties of the application to be used, it needed an alloying element to improve the mechanical properties of the aluminum. Aluminum Matrix Composite (AMC) or better known as aluminum matrix composite is one type of material that has great potential to be developed, due to its good combination and properties such as high strength and hardness, low density, low density, capable of good machining, and its basic ingredients are easily found on the market and cheaper than other materials. This research was conducted using the stir casting process to be able to mix all the compositions contained in aluminum matrix composites and to help the distribution of alumina reinforcing particles (Al2O3) and aluminum matrices be evenly distributed. The parameters used in this casting process are varying the volume fraction of the Al2O3 amplifier by 0.5%; 1.5% and 2.5% plus the magnesium content remains 0.9%. The results showed that the addition of Al2O3 can increase the value of hardness and reduce the value of tensile strength. The highest hardness value was 75.3 HRB at the addition of Al2O3 by 2.5% and the lowest tensile strength value was 7.17 Kgf / mm2 with the percentage of Al2O3 addition of 0.5%.


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