STUDY OF TENSILE PROPERTIES OF ALUMINIUM 6061 – FLYASH COMPOSITE

Author’s Name :  Sree Harsha Bharadwaj H | Shashidhar Naik K.B

Volume 03 Issue 03  Year 2016  ISSN No:  2349-3860  Page no: 6-11

Abstract:

A composite material is a ‘material system’ composed of a combination of two or more micro or macro constituents that differ in form, chemical composition and which are essentially insoluble in each other. In the present scenario the Metal Matrix Composites are exceeding in the field of composites for its wide variety of application in the field of aerospace, automobile, pressure vessel and pipes, wear resistance material and power conduction. The scope of the experimental study in this article is limited to prepare different volume fraction of fly ash reinforced Al 6061 MMC composite using stir casting process and to conduct the tensile test on UTM machine for fabricated composites, study of the tensile properties for different composition of fly ash Al 6061 MMC’s. The following study documents all the results related to the studies conducted.

Keywords:

MMC (metal matrix composites), UTM (Universal Testing machine), casting, Tensile.

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