Metal matrix composites (MMCs) have become attractive for engineering structural applications due to their excellent specific strength property and are increasingly seen as alternative to the conventional materials particularly in the automotive industry. In this study, a historical background on the development and application of metal matrix composite for automotive brake rotor is presented. ...

Aluminium composites are extensively used in several industrial applications. The production of Metal Matrix Composite (MMCs) with varying wt. % reinforcement/s leads to enhancement wear and mechanical behavior. In the present work, TiB2 constant CeO2 particulates were reinforced Al6061 alloy manufacture hybrid Al MMCs by Vortex (Stircasting) technique. Developed hotrolled at 515°C temperature....

Metal matrix composites (MMCs) are now gaining their usage in aerospace, automotive and biomedical industries because of their inherent properties like high strength to weight ratio, low wear rate etc. To machine these types of materials conventional machining methods are unsuitable because of high tool wear and tooling cost. Electrochemical Machining (ECM) is one of the important non-tradition...

Due to their lightweight, new classes of materials including aluminium-based Metal Matrix Composites (MMCs) have been popular in recent years various industries aircraft and automobiles. Because its low cost ease availability, aluminium alloy (LM13) MMCs were developed using Rice husk ash (RHA) as reinforcement this study rather than traditional composites prepared the stir casting technique. L...

Previous experimental work by Gundel and Wawner showed that the matrix alloy has a strong effect on reaction layer growth in Ti alloy/SCS-6 composite systems. A finite difference technique was used to model the reaction layer growth, which predicts the same trends as those exhibited by the experimental data. Matrix alloying elements such as Mo and Cr in metastable R alloys will affect the equil...

Metal matrix composites (MMCs) attract considerable attention as a result from its ability in providing a high strength, high modulus, high toughness, high impact properties, improving wear resistance and providing good corrosion resistance compared to unreinforced alloy. Aluminium Silicon (Al/Si) alloy MMC has been widely used in various industrial sectors such as in transportation, domestic e...

-The present investigation is based on the effect of thermal residual stresses on the both thermal expansion and damping behavior of Al/Al2O3 Metal Matrix Composites (MMCs) processed by compo casting. Thermal expansion and damping properties have been studied experimentally as a function of temperature over a temperature range from room temperature to 400°C both in the heating and cooling cycle...

The coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) is one of the most important physical properties of metal matrix composites (MMCs). The thermal expansion response is correlated to the microstructure, the deformation of the matrix, and the internal stress conditions. In the present study the physical CTE of aluminium matrix composite (AMC) reinforced with 70 vol. % SiC particles is analytically compu...