Effect of Wettability and Uniform Distribution of Reinforcement Particle on Mechanical Property (Tensile) in Aluminum Metal Matrix Composite—A Review

There is a massive demand for low-weight high strength materials in automotive, space aerospace, and even structural industries in this present engineering world. These industries attract composites only because of their high strength, resistance to wear, and low weight. Among these composites, metal matrix composite finds wide applications due to its elevated properties, excellent resistance property, corrosion resistance, etc. The reinforcements exist in particles, fiber, and whiskers. Among the three, particles play an important role because of their availability and wettability with the metal matrix. Additionally, among the various metal matrices such as aluminum, magnesium, copper, titanium, etc., aluminum plays a vital role among metal matrices because of its cost, availability in abundance, and castability. Stir casting is the most inexpensive and straightforward composite fabrication technique among the prevailing techniques. Even though so many factors contribute to the elevated property of composites, metal matrix, and reinforcement phase, uniform distribution and wettability are essential factors among all the other factors. This review aims to develop a composite with elevated property in a cost-effective manner. Cost includes metal matrix, reinforcement, and processing technique. Various works have been tabulated to achieve the above objective, and analysis was carried out on tensile strength concerning microstructure. This review paper explores the challenges in composite fabrication and finds a solution to overcome them.

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Investigation of Tensile Property of Aluminium SiC Metal Matrix Composite

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.766-767.252 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 766-767 ◽

pp. 252-256 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

A. Siddique Ahmed Ghias ◽

B. Vijaya Ramnath

Keyword(s):

Composite Material ◽

Metal Matrix Composite ◽

Matrix Composite ◽

Metal Matrix ◽

Matrix Material ◽

Chemical Properties ◽

High Strength ◽

Stir Casting ◽

The Matrix ◽

Hybrid Metal Matrix Composite

The composite material is a combination of two or more materials with different physical and chemical properties. The composite has superior characteristics than those individual components. A hybrid composite is the one which contains at least three materials. When the matrix material is a metal, the composite is termed as metal matrix composites (MMC). The MMC is a composite material with two constituent parts, one being a metal. The other material may be another metal, ceramic or fiber. Among all the MMC’s, Aluminium is the most widely used matrix material due to its light weight, high strength and hardness. This paper deals with the fabrication and mechanical investigation of hybrid metal matrix composite Al - SiC. The fabrication is done by stir casting by adding the required quantities of additives into the stirred molten Aluminium. The results show significant effect of mechanical properties such as tensile strength, yield stress and flexural strength. The internal structure of the composite is observed using Scanning electron microscope (SEM) and found that are formation of pores in them.

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Fretting Analysis of Aluminium 6061 Reinforced With Graphene

International Journal of Engineering & Technology ◽

10.14419/ijet.v7i3.12.16181 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 7 (3.12) ◽

pp. 568

Author(s):

Srinivasa. M.R ◽

Y S Rammohan ◽

Zahid Irfan

Keyword(s):

Composite Materials ◽

Metal Matrix Composite ◽

Matrix Composite ◽

Metal Matrix ◽

High Strength ◽

Stir Casting ◽

Industrial Sector ◽

Aviation Industry ◽

Metal Composite ◽

Specific Strength

The application of Aluminium alloys becomes significant and most wide in the field of aviation industry. Aluminium 6061, because of its pro mechanical characteristics. Graphene is one of the allotropic forms of Carbon which is abundantly available in nature. The high tensile strength and low density of graphene is the added advantage as it is used as a reinforced material with Aluminium 6061. Graphene was found to be a more suitable reinforcing material that improves tribological properties of metal. Composite materials are mixtures of various parent materials resulting in the formation of materials having a mix of varied desired properties like low weight, larger stiffness, higher specific strength etc. The composite materials so obtained invariably have superior properties to their parental ones. So these materials become a really enticing notice for higher strengthened material for industrial sector. This paper primarily focuses on distinctive effects of utilizing Graphene as reinforcement for Al-6061in the view of tribological characteristics. Graphene has outstanding mechanical and physical properties, creating it a perfect reinforcement material for lightweight weight and high strength metal matrix composites (MMC) like Al-6061. Fabrication, being a important step, because it controls the microstructure, that successively determines the properties of the material, was conducted by stir casting. Stir casting additionally helped within the dispersion of Graphene uniformly within the metal matrix composite. To analyze the effect of tribological parameters damage resistance of the metal matrix composite, linear reciprocating tribometer was used.

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Wettability of Low Weight Borides by Commercial Aluminum Alloys − A Basis for Metal Matrix Composite Fabrication

Advanced Engineering Materials ◽

10.1002/adem.201600297 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 18 (11) ◽

pp. 1884-1888 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Steven Ploetz ◽

Rafal Nowak ◽

Andreas Lohmueller ◽

Natalia Sobczak ◽

Robert F. Singer

Keyword(s):

Aluminum Alloys ◽

Metal Matrix Composite ◽

Matrix Composite ◽

Metal Matrix ◽

Composite Fabrication ◽

Low Weight

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Solid Glass Microspheres Filled Aluminum Alloy Metal Matrix Composite Made Through Stir-Casting Technique

International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering - 2 ◽

10.35940/ijrte.e6690.018520 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (5) ◽

pp. 4471-4475

Keyword(s):

Aluminium Alloy ◽

Metal Matrix Composite ◽

Matrix Composite ◽

Metal Matrix ◽

High Strength ◽

Stir Casting ◽

Glass Microspheres ◽

Casting Technique ◽

Solid Glass ◽

Alloy Metal

Solid Glass Microspheres (SGM) in the range of 10–20 vol. % were used as reinforcement for making aluminium alloy metal matrix composite having density 2.66–2.68 gm/cc using stir-casting technique. Aluminium alloys are not new for synthesizing Metal Matrix Composites (MMC’s), as they have already established their exceptional ability to sketch out the material for required properties where high strength is expected from a low density material. This has made them one of the widely used materials for aeronautics and marine applications where strength and weight are among the major governing factors for the suitability of any material. So, an effort is made to enhance the strength of aluminium alloy LM13 without affecting its lightness, by reinforcing it with Solid Glass Microspheres (SGM). This synthesized composite, is characterized in terms of its density and compressive deformation behaviour. It was observed that the developed composite behaves somewhat like a high strength aluminium foam under compressive deformation as exhibited in the stress–strain curves. The results of density evaluation and compression showed a substantial enhancement in the compressive strength of the developed composite with a considerably low change in density.

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Experimental Research on AA 6061/SICP Composites

International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology - Regular Issue ◽

10.35940/ijeat.b3899.129219 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 3508-3510

Keyword(s):

Mechanical Properties ◽

Metal Matrix Composite ◽

Matrix Composite ◽

Metal Matrix ◽

Aluminum Matrix ◽

Weight Ratio ◽

High Strength ◽

Matrix Alloy ◽

Stir Casting ◽

Silicon Carbide Particulate

Aluminium alloys are widely used in aerospace and automobile industries due to high strength to low weight ratio and their good mechanical properties such as better corrosion resistance and wear resistance, low thermal expansion as compared with other metals. The main objective of our work is to improve the mechanical properties such as impact strength, hardness of Aluminium based Metal Matrix Composite (MMC), and its relation with processing of the silicon carbide particulate (SiCp) as reinforced in Aluminum matrix. AA6061 alloy is chosen as matrix alloy, in which Aluminum is the base element. The work has been proposed for four different weight proportions of SiCp to aluminium matrix and the processing of the metal matrix composite is to be processed with stir casting setup and heat treated.

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Assessment of the mechanical properties of aluminium metal matrix composite: A review

Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites ◽

10.1177/0731684418816379 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 38 (6) ◽

pp. 267-298 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Manish Maurya ◽

Sudhir Kumar ◽

Vivek Bajpai

Keyword(s):

Mechanical Properties ◽

Metal Matrix Composite ◽

Matrix Composite ◽

Metal Matrix ◽

High Strength ◽

Stir Casting ◽

Processing Technique ◽

Bench Mark ◽

Friction Stir ◽

Study Guides

In the present scenario, composites are in huge demand in the industries due to their light weight, wear resistance, stiffness and high strength. The functional and structural properties were improved according to the need of industry. Particulate reinforcement is one of the methods to enhance the strength, ductility and toughness of the composites. Stir casting or friction stir processing technique was used to fabricate the metal matrix composite. For technology seekers it is very difficult to select appropriate techniques because there is lack of bench mark standards and industry experiences. The novel contribution of this paper is to provide systematic approaches and methodology which enable academic user as well as industry persons to select appropriate method and parameters for the fabrication of the metal matrix composite. This study guides the new researchers to fabricate and characterize the mechanical properties of aluminium-based composites reinforced with Al2O3, B4C, SiC, TiC, graphite and TiB2 particles.

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