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Room Temperature Consolidation of Al and B4C Composite Powder by Equal Channel Angular Pressing

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The aim at the present work is to study the consolidation behavior of Al and B4Ccomposite powder processed by Equal Channel Angular Pressing (ECAP) at room temperature. The composition of the composite powder is 95 wt% Al and 5 wt% B4C. The Al-B4C composite powder is subjected to ECAP through processing route A up to 4 passes. The ECAP die used for densification has 90° channel angle and 20° corner angle. It is found that the density and hardness of the composite are improved as the ECAP passes is increased. The microstructure is homogeneous and partial fragmentation of reinforcement is observed. Density and hardness measured after four ECAP are 97% and 98 HV. The improvement of density and hardness is the due strain enhances consolidation of powders during ECAP.

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Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 813-814)

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592-596

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https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.813-814.592

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November 2015

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Karunanaithi Saravanan*, Mariappan Senthil Kumar, Perumal Venkatachalam, Rajaram Raghavan

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Al-B4C Composite, Consolidation, Equal Channel Angular Pressing

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