An Investigation of Mechanical Properties on Aluminium 6061 Reinforced with Silicon Carbide - Metal Matrix Composites

A. Radha; K.R. Vijaya Kumar

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.787.568

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An Investigation of Mechanical Properties on Aluminium 6061 Reinforced with Silicon Carbide - Metal Matrix Composites

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Composite materials like Aluminium metal matrix composite is playing a very important role in manufacturing industries e.g. automobile and aerospace industries, due to their superior properties such as light weight, low density, high specific modulus, high fatigue strength etc., In this study Aluminium(Al 6061) is reinforced with Silicon Carbide particles and fabricated by Stir Casting Technique (vortex method). The MMC rectangular bars (samples) are prepared with Al6061 and SiC (28 µ size) as the reinforced particles by weight fraction from 0%, 5%, 10%, and 15% of SiC. The microstructure analysis and Mechanical properties like Tensile Strength, Vickers Hardness and Charpy Impact Strength were investigated on prepared specimens. It is observed that the properties are increased with increasing of reinforced specimens by weight fraction.

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Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 787)

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