Experimental Study on Effect of Silicon Carbide and Graphite particles on Mechanical Behaviour of Alluminium-6061 Alloys

Authors

  • Lokesh K S  Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Srinivas Institute of Technology, Valachil, Mangaluru, Karnataka State, India

Keywords:

Silicon carbide, MMC's, Al-MMC's

Abstract

In the past few years the global need for low cost, high performance and good quality materials has caused a shift in research from evaluation of purely metallic constituents into light weight composite structures. Considered with the matrix phase of pure aluminum or alloy of the same metal and the reinforcement material used is a non-metallic ceramic such as SiC, Al2O3, SiO2 contribute greatly to the structural behavior once it is processed and tested in the standard conditions. Present work highlights the crucial effect of silicon carbide particulates and specified amount of graphite on aluminum 6061 matrix material. The fabrication of samples were done by most convenient technique called stir casting by adding reinforcing materials in the range of 3%,6%,9% by weight which is effectively mixed in to the matrix of aluminum 6061 alloys by maintaining the standard conditions. Rockwell hardness test is conducted and properties are evaluated experimentally to assess the influence of Silicon carbide with constant amount of graphite powder on the matrix material. It is observed from the results the addition of ceramic particles influence greatly on the hardness number which increases by increasing the silicon carbide content. Similar trend was observed while assessing the compressive strength of the composites along with considerable change incurred with shear deformation was properly recorded.This paper details only about the influence of graphite and silicon carbide mixture is added in varied proportion on aluminium-60601 composites.

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Lokesh K S, " Experimental Study on Effect of Silicon Carbide and Graphite particles on Mechanical Behaviour of Alluminium-6061 Alloys, IInternational Journal of Scientific Research in Mechanical and Materials Engineering(IJSRMME), ISSN : 2456-3307, Volume 3, Issue 1, pp.10-17, January-February-2019.