INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, BHU

CHARACTERIZATION OF METAL MATRIX COMPOSITES

SUBMITTED TO: Dr. U.S. RAO
Associate Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT BHU

SUBMITTED BY: VIPIN KUMAR YADAV

Roll no.- 19132053
M.Tech (Production)
Content
 Processing Techniques
• Liquid state:
1. Stirr Casting.
2. Infiltration.
3. Squeeze Casting.
4. Thixoforming and Rheo-Die-Casting.
5. Vibration Cooling Slope methode.

• Powder Mettalurgy
• Diffusion Bonding
• Deposition Technique
Liquid Metallurgy Technique:
It is the most economical and can be used to produce large size
MMC easier than other types of processing techniques.

1. Stirr Casting:
 Simplicity.
 Flexibility.
 Large quantity production.
 Minimize final cost of product.
 Stirring breaks the dendrites and promotes uniform
distribution of reinforcement particles.
Factors need to be attention in stirr casting:
 Wettability (add ~ .4 wt% of Mg )
 Porosity in cast MMC ( squeezing after stirr))

Procedure:
 Melt Al alloy upto temp. A and then cool to temp. B.
 Manual mixing in slurry of SiC since difficult to mix automatically
in slurry and further heating to fully liquis state ( temp. C to A).
 Automatic mixing in liquid state for 10 minutes at a particular
RPM.
 Pouring into the metal die to get desire solid composite.
 Centrifugal Casting:
In brake disks, rubbing surface requires more wear resistance and
rest of the parts require less.
Centrifugal casting gives concentration gradient and gradient
depends on :
 Centrifugal accelaration
 Particle size
 Viscosity
 Cooling rate of mould
Procedure:
 Stirring process followed by pouring into cylindrical pipe of
centrifugal equipment for production of ring type product.
WHAT WE WILL HAVE
TO DO?
Our Material:
Al319 alloy as Metal matrix. (suited for wear resistance
and large freezing range suited for stirring technique).
SiC as Reinforcement.
Materials and Instruments required
Induction furnace Copper: Improve heat
Muffle furnace ( for heat treatment).
treatment capacity.
Metal moulds.
Brinell’s testing machine Mg/ Ca: Improve
Indentor wettability.
Lathe machine(to prepare tensile Plint TE67 tribometer.
specimen)
UTM
Scanning Electron
Accelerometer(response of free microscope.
vibration testing)
Impact hammer(free vibration
testing)
Tool maker’s microscope
Our Processing Technique:
Stirr Casting
Centrifugal casting
Squeeze- strirr casting

 Samples will be prepared with varying SiC for study of effect of

composition of SiC on various properties.
 After casting, heat treatment process will be done followed by
preparation of samples for characterization or mechanical testing.
Testing Techniques to
be used
Sliding Wear Test
DUCOM Pin On Disc sliding wear test:
 Steel pin :(5mm dia, 20mm height) High carbon steel
 Applied load (20 N)
 Sliding velocity( .5 to 2 m/s).
 Sliding distance (1000m to 2000 m).
 Weight loss of samples will be recorded and weight loss will be the
measure for wear.
 Wear rate is directly influence by external variable such as Load,
Sliding distance and sliding velocity.
 Wear rate will be calculated by Archard equation.
Q=KW/H Q= volume removed from surface/sliding distance.
H= Indentation hardness of softer surface.
W= Normal pressure applied.
K= Archard’s coefficient k< 1
Sliding Wear Test
Plint TE67 Tribometer (Ball on ring)
 High carbon chromium steel ball (AISI 52100) with 10mm
diameter. Zeiss stereo-microscope for study
 Applied load: 3N of surface marphology of the worn-
out pins.
 Sliding Velocity range: (.5 to 1.5 m/s)
 Sliding distance: 1500m
 Electronic balance machine for weight loss measurement.

Wear coefficient, K =V/(WD)

V= wear volume
W= load applied
D= sliding distance
Microstructure study:
Scanning Electron Microscope and optical
microscope( DMRX optical microscope)
Olympus optical metallurgical microscope.
Tensile Testing
Turning operation will be performed in lathe to obtain
tensile specimens.
Dimensions of the specimen might be according to ASTM
standard E 8M-04.
UTM machines testing result into stress strain diagram and
.2% methode for Young’ modulus value.

2
E= 4PL/πd ∆L
Hardness Testing
Brinell hardness test method is generally employed.

2
BHN = 2P/πD(D-√D – d2)

P = Applied load
D= dia. Of ball indenter (mm)
d= dia of indentation(mm)