Review on properties of aluminium metal matrix composites

  • Balasubramani Subramaniam Department of Production Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Sri Eshwar College of Engineering, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2284-0652
  • Vijay Rengaraj Purusothaman Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Sri Eshwar College of Engineering, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India
  • Sibi Mayuran Karuppusamy Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Sri Eshwar College of Engineering, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India
  • Shree Hari Ganesh Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Sri Eshwar College of Engineering, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India
  • Raj Kumar Markandan Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Sri Eshwar College of Engineering, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India
DOI: https://doi.org/10.30464/jmee.2020.4.1.57
Keywords: Aluminium, Metal matrix composites, Reinforcement, Fabrication techniques, Properties of metal matrix composites

Abstract

Nowadays, the global industries producing mechanical components are moving towards the usage of composites to reduce weight at the same time without compromising with characteristics of the material being used. This new combination of material provides specific desired properties when combined with various reinforcement materials like SiC, B4C, Al2O3, MgO etc., It is widely used in various industries like aerospace, automobile and marine industries. This property specific tailorable metal matrix composite with Al7075 as the base material can be fabricated using various techniques such as stir casting, high end ball milling, ultrasonic assisted casting, powder metallurgy, squeeze casting friction stir casting etc., out of which stir casting method is preferred by many researchers as stir casting method is seen to provide better distribution of reinforcement particles throughout the metal matrix. It is evident from the research of various authors that when the base material Al7075 is reinforced with the above-mentioned ceramic, it is found that there is a decrease in density and increase in hardness, compressive strength and wear resistance. Here, both physical and mechanical behaviour of aluminium reinforced composites with the effect of the particle size changes, effects after reinforcement and other processing and fabrication methods have been discussed.

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Author Biographies

Balasubramani Subramaniam, Department of Production Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Sri Eshwar College of Engineering, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India

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Balasubramani Subramaniam, born in 1984, working as an Assistant Professor in Sri Eshwar College of Engineering, Tamilnadu, India. His research interests mainly focus on the manufacturing and testing of metal matrix composites, published more than 10 scientific papers in international and national journals.

Vijay Rengaraj Purusothaman, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Sri Eshwar College of Engineering, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India

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Vijay Rengaraj Purusothaman, born in 1998, currently pursuing B.E in Mechanical Engineering in Sri Eshwar College of Engineering, Coimbatore 2016-2020. This review journal is part of his final year project on experimental investigation On AL 7075 AMMCs.

Sibi Mayuran Karuppusamy, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Sri Eshwar College of Engineering, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India

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Sibi Mayuran Karuppusamy, born in 1998, currently pursuing B.E in Mechanical Engineering in Sri Eshwar College of Engineering, Coimbatore 2016-2020. This review journal is part of his final year project on experimental investigation On AL 7075 AMMCs.

Shree Hari Ganesh, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Sri Eshwar College of Engineering, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India

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Shree Hari Ganesh, born in 1998, currently pursuing B.E in Mechanical Engineering in Sri Eshwar College of Engineering, Coimbatore 2016-2020. This review journal is part of his final year project on experimental investigation On AL 7075 AMMCs.

Raj Kumar Markandan, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Sri Eshwar College of Engineering, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India

 

Rauthor_Markandan.pngaj Kumar Markandan, born in 1998, currently pursuing B.E in Mechanical Engineering in Sri Eshwar College of Engineering, Coimbatore 2016-2020. This review journal is part of his final year project on experimental investigation On AL 7075 AMMCs.

JMME 4(1) 2020 front cover
Published
2020-08-09
How to Cite
Subramaniam, B., Purusothaman, V., Karuppusamy, S., Ganesh, S. and Markandan, R. (2020) “Review on properties of aluminium metal matrix composites”, Journal of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, 4(1), pp. 57-66. doi: 10.30464/jmee.2020.4.1.57.
Issue
Vol 4 No 1 (2020)
Section
Mechanical Engineering

Copyright (c) 2020 Balasubramani Subramaniam, Vijay Rengaraj Purusothaman, Sibi Mayuran Karuppusamy, Shree Hari Ganesh, Raj Kumar Markandan

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