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Fabrication of Continuous Fiber-Reinforced Composite Sheet Metal Using Centrifugal Casting

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Sheet metals are extensively used in aerospace and automotive applications. The most desired properties of sheet metals are their excellent strength and formability. However, it is less common to have them simultaneously in sheet metals fabricated by conventional methods. Composite materials provide an excellent opportunity for fabricating components with tailored properties, with simple and predictable fabrication steps. The paper presents a detailed fabrication process of continuous fiber-reinforced sheet metals (aluminum matrix reinforced with stainless-steel fiber mesh) using the centrifugal casting technique. The stainless-steel fiber mesh is coated with copper through the electrodeposition method to achieve good wettability of aluminum with stainless steel. Characterization of the developed composite is performed using optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy. The analyses show defect-free microstructure with homogenous bonding between the aluminum matrix and stainless-steel fiber. Detrimental intermetallic compounds are not observed in the interface region. The tensile test reveals that the composite exhibits twice the strength of cast aluminum.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, India

    Hariharan Maruthiah, M. Govindaraju, R. Vaira Vignesh, Kota Pavan Kalyan, J. Aishwarya, V. Vikash & Nitish Saravanan

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

    K. Rajkumar

  2. Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Science, Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia

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The present concept was conceived right around the time of the very first lockdown in March 2020. The luxury of utilizing resources was far at hand. Hence, almost all the apparatus required for experimentation were designed and constructed primarily at home, with most household parts or scrap materials. For example, mild steel pipe for die, motor from an old wet grinder, shaft from a ceiling fan, scrap plywood for the framework, old transformer and few electrical as a substitute for DC source was used in electrodeposition process. And the nichrome heating coil electrical resistance furnace was made of white cement and a metal bucket.

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Pulse generator circuit with 555 IC

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Maruthiah, H. et al. (2023). Fabrication of Continuous Fiber-Reinforced Composite Sheet Metal Using Centrifugal Casting. In: Rajkumar, K., Jayamani, E., Ramkumar, P. (eds) Recent Advances in Materials Technologies. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3895-5_47

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