Aluminium matrix hybrid

composite:A review of
reinforcement philosphies
Muzaffarpur institute of technology, Muzafarpur
Name-Md Irfan Ali
Guided by-Proff. Md Irshad Alam
Roll No. -19MM10
Branch-Machine design
Content
• Introduction
• First approach to DRAMCs
• Second Approach to DRAMCs
• Third approach to DRAMCs
• Reinforcing materials in AMCs.
• Hybrid AMCs with two different synthetic ceramic materials.
• Hybrid AMCs with synthetic and industrial wastes reinforcement.
• Hybrid AMCs with synthetic and agro waste derivatives as
reinforcement.
Introduction
• Current engineering application require material that are lighter
stronger and less expensive.
• Some of the properties required in current engineering applications
are:High specific strength, Low coefficient of thermal expansion and
hivh thermal resistance, gooddamping capacities and satisfactory
levwls of corrosion resistance.
• Common light metallic alloys uesd for MMCs-Al, Mg, Ti
• Other metallic alloys used for MMCs-Zn, Cu, Stainles ssteel
• The properties of DRAMCs properties are better than CRAMCs
First Approach to DRAMCs
• First approach involves finding alternative and cheaper reinforcements in the
development of DRAMCs.
• This is aimed at providing solution to problems posed by high cost and limited
availability of conventional ceramic materials.
• Industrial wastes and agro waste derivatives are some of the reinforcing
materials that have been investigated.
• The results obtained from these reinforcements have been promising as they
show significant improvement in the properties of the composite developed
over the unreinforced alloy.
• However, they possess inferior properties when compared to the DRAMCs
developed using synthetic reinforcement.
Second approach to DRAMCs
• This approach is aimed at optimising the properties of DRAMCs by reducing the
particle size of synthetic ceramic materials from micron scale to nano scale.
• The fracture toughness and ductility of DRAMCs have reportedly been improved
without significant drop in strength when nano partickes are used as reinforcing
materials.
• This development seems to be an intersting one however high cost and availability
of nano particles seem to be a limiting factor in developong countries where AMCs
are produced.
• there is still inconclusive evidence to substantiate the mechanisms of ductility and
fracture toughness improvement in nano-particulate reinforced composites.Some
authors have reported improved strength and wear resistance at the expense of
ductility
Third Approach to DRAMCs
• The third approach involves the development of DRAMCsusing two or
more reinforcing materials. This class of DRAMCsis called hybrid
composites.
• This approach gives room for possible reduction of cost coupled with
property optimization in DRAMCs. Some authors have reported
comparable orimproved performance of hybrid AMCs over single
reinforcedAMCs even at reduced processing cost. This has put hybrid
reinforced AMCs under the spotlight as many researchers forecast the
huge promise of developing high performance – low cost MMCs
through this route.
Reinforcing materials in AMCs
1) Synthetic particulate ceramics
e.g.-SiC, B4C, WC, Graphite, CNT, SiO2
2) Industrial wastes
e. G. –Bamboo leaf ash, Rice husk ash, Bagasse, Palm kernel shell ash
3) Agro wastes
e. g. –Flyash, Red mud etc.
 Hybrid AMCs with two different synthetic
materials
• More focus on property optimisation whereas less focus on the cost.
• Many authors investigated microstructural and mechanical properties
through this route and showed improvement in properties over single
reinforced AMCs.
• However, No research has been done on the influence of double
synthetic ceramic reinforcement on the corrosion behaviour of
HAMCs.
HAMCs with synthetic and industrial waste.
• Fly ash and red mud are industrial wastes from power plant and
aluminium industry respectively.
• These are the waste material and less costly. Henceit is utilised
alongwith synthetic ceramic as a reinforcement to make hybrid
AMCs.
• This shows significant improvement in properties over unreinforced
alloy .
Hybrid AMCs with synthetic and agro waste
derivatives as reinforcement.
• Agro waste derivatives as reinforcement gives give optimisation of
cost alongwith maintaining the properties to a great extent.
• This is mainly focussed on the cost optimisation because agro waste
derivatives are widely abundant in almost every countries.
• Industrial wastes are not much widely available in devloping countries
that might be a constraint over its usage. Therefore, agrowaste
derivatives will be a boon for such countries to develop less costly
composites of aluminium matrix.
• Thank You