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Dry Sliding Wear Behavior of a Novel 6351 Al-Al4SiC4 Composite

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In this research work the dry sliding wear behavior of 6351 Al alloy and 6351 Al based composites possessing varying amount of (2-7 vol.%) in situ Al4SiC4 reinforcement was investigated at low sliding speed (1 m/s) against a hardened EN 31 disk at different loads. In general, the wear mechanism involved adhesion and microcutting abrasion. Under selected loads (9.8 and 24.5 N), the overall wear resistance increased with increasing content of Al4SiC4 particles since particles stood tall against the process of wear. Besides, strain hardening of the matrix played an additional role to provide wear resistance. Therefore, the newly developed 6351Al-Al4SiC4 composite can be used as light weight wear resistance component in industry.

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  1. Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, National Institute of Technology Durgapur, Durgapur, 713209, West Bengal, India

    Manas Kumar Mondal & Joydeep Maity

  2. Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, 721302, West Bengal, India

    Koushik Biswas

  3. NDT and Metallurgy Group, Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CSIR), Durgapur, 713209, West Bengal, India

    Atanu Saha

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Mondal, M.K., Biswas, K., Saha, A. et al. Dry Sliding Wear Behavior of a Novel 6351 Al-Al4SiC4 Composite. J. of Materi Eng and Perform 24, 759–770 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11665-014-1366-0

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