Mechanical behaviour of Aluminium 6082 silicon carbide Particulate composites

Abstract

newlineA growing interest and ever increasing need for improvement of newlineperformance parameters are challenging tasks to be addressed by materials newlineused in both the aerospace and ground transportation systems These newlinerequirements led to the development and emergence of the new metallic newlinematerials, namely Metal Matrix Composites MMC Their exceptionally newlinegood engineering properties have made the MMCs an attractive and viable newlinecandidate for use in weight sensitive and stiffness critical components in newlinetransportation systems However the inadequate fracture toughness poor newlinetensile ductility inferior fracture related properties and size limitations on newlineavailable product forms has been a severe limitation to its applications newlineA class of metal matrix composite materials which is attracting newlineincreasing attention and use are the aluminum alloy matrices discontinuously newlinereinforced with particulate whisker or short fiber reinforcements Most of the newlinemethods used for the manufacture of composites are expensive and require newlineskilled complicated operations newline newline