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Development and wear behavior investigation on aluminum-7075/B4C/fly ash metal matrix composites

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Metal matrix composites manufactured by stir casting method provide significant benefits in aeronautical and automobile applications. Nowadays, composite material usage is improving in all engineering fields as an outcome of high strength, good wear, and corrosive resistance. This research work deals with the manufacturing of hybrid metal matrix composites of Al alloy as base metal reinforced by varying B4C (0.0, 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, and 4.0) and fly ash (9.0, 8.0, 7.0, 6.0) particles having particle mesh size of 150 μm using liquid metallurgy stir casting technique. The tensile, compression, percentage of elongation is tested using computer interfaced universal testing machine; the hardness of composites are tested by using the Brinell hardness test; the wear rate of composites are investigated experimentally. Through computer-aided scanning electron microscopy test, it is noticed that reinforced particles have been uniformly distributed into the aluminum metal matrix. It was observed from outcomes that the mechanical and tribological attributes are enhanced by reinforcement of B4C and fly ash with aluminum metal matrix alloy. The results reveal that mechanical and tribological properties are improved for Al 7075 wt% 90, B4C wt% 3, and fly ash wt% 7 such as hardness is 111 BHN, UTS is 290 MPa, % elongation is 0.75 mm, impact strength is 0.76 J, and wear rate is 1.4 mm3/min.

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The corresponding author would like to thank Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Management of S.V. College of Engineering and Dept. of Manufacturing Engineering, Anna University, Chennai, India for providing their support in research work, and the authors would like to extend their thanks to Mr. P. Muni Chengaiah from SVCE, Tirupati and Mr. R. Selva Rajan, Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Anna University for providing the infrastructural facility to perform the experimentation.

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    T. Pratheep Reddy, S. Jaya Kishore, P. Charan Theja & P. Punna Rao

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Reddy, T.P., Kishore, S.J., Theja, P.C. et al. Development and wear behavior investigation on aluminum-7075/B4C/fly ash metal matrix composites. Adv Compos Hybrid Mater 3, 255–265 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42114-020-00145-5

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