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A Novel Cast Nanocomposite with Enhanced Fatigue Life

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Cast metal matrix nanocomposites (C-MMNCs), commonly made of light-weight aluminum or magnesium matrices, usually exhibit inferior fatigue behavior as compared to their monolithic alloys commonly owing to poor ductility and low toughness values caused by the addition of reinforcing nanoparticles. Strong inter-particle forces such as van der Waals, casting induced porosities, inadequate dispersibility of nanometric particles, and insufficient wetting in the reinforcement-matrix interfacial regions are of the key existing problems. The present study is aimed to deal with the high-cycle fatigue behavior of a novel ultrasonically stir-cast SiO2/A356 nanocomposite wherein a C-MMNC with simultaneously enhanced static and fatigue properties was developed. Due to good ultrasonic dispersion and distribution of nanometric particles, the developed composite materials exhibited higher ductility values, being a dominant parameter to dictate the fatigue response. While the addition of reinforcing particles to a given melt usually leads to an inferior fatigue response, the obtained results revealed that proper ultrasonication can effectively reduce porosities, de-agglomerate solid reinforcements, wet and disperse them uniformly in the matrix and enhance fatigue performance significantly.

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    Massoud Malaki & Alireza Fadaei Tehrani

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Malaki, M., Tehrani, A.F. & Niroumand, B. A Novel Cast Nanocomposite with Enhanced Fatigue Life. JOM 75, 145–154 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-022-05473-z

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