Experimental Investigation of Sliding Wear Characteristics on Aluminium-Based Metal Reinforced with SiC, Al₂O₃ and Cadmium Sulphide

Abstract

Aluminium oxide- and silicon carbide-alloyed MMC is an exceptionally helpful engineering MMC because of its high strength, structure, flexibility and great protection from wear. In this experimental study, the dry sliding wear pattern of hybrid aluminium composite is tested. An alloy of aluminium oxide, silicon carbide and cadmium sulphide along with other materials in a small percentage is used to strengthen the base aluminium (Al 1100); in order to prepare a basic or similar version of AA6061 T9 Al₂O₃/SiC/CdS, Mn composite metal matrix by using the stir casting process [ASM handbook in Properties and selection: nonferrous alloys and special-purpose materials. ASM International, Materials Park, Ohio, 1990, Tikotkar et al. in Int J Mech Automob Eng 1:2009, 2008], various parameters of a pin-on-disc apparatus are discussed in detail and further few more tests related to structure will be carried out. This experimentation shows the effect of load on sliding speed. This type of hybrid is the base aluminium with CdS in nanoparticles that were never tested, and cadmium bears good lubrication properties, which will help in reducing wear on material, and it is useful in applications such as cams, gears and pistons and journal bearing a feature of self-lubrication or at least reduced wear to study the decrease in wear rate in the newly fabricated composite is indicated. Further, the results obtained are validated by conducting confirmation test and errors detected will be kept minimum, below 9%. Wear attributes of aluminium MMC under various operational test scenarios were observed on the test rig apparatus by considering various loads from 4 N to 70N simultaneously by considering the sliding speeds of 0.50 up to 10.00 m per second, where constant sliding of 20,000 m was taken. Wear was seen as basically abrasive followed by oxidative.