Wear Attribute of Aluminium Metal Matrix Composite Reinforced With MWCNT, Produced By FSP, On A Vertical Milling Machine

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Year : 2025 | Volume : 13 | Special Issue 01 | Page : 525 539
    By

    Mohd Firasath Ali,

  • Syed Azeem Pasha,

  • Syed Mujahed Hussaini,

  1. Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, NSAKCET, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
  2. Associate Professor, Mechanical and Production Engineering Department, DCET, Nampally, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
  3. Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, NSAKCET, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Abstract

The exceptional properties of Aluminium metal matrix composites (AMMCs) like good hardness, specific strength, enhanced wear rate made huge demand in the automobile and aerospace industries. The classical methods of manufacturing AMMCs leave problems at the interface of matrix and reinforcement segregation, like an agglomeration of reinforcements, wettability etc. To overcome this, an alternate, innovative method of fabricating aluminium matrix surface composites has been invented, which is termed friction stir processing.  In this paper friction stir processing attempted to fabricate aluminium matrix surface composites by considering AA7075 as the matrix and multi wall carbon Nano tubes (MWCNT) as the reinforcement particles. The process parameters of FSP such as rotational speed, traverse speed and weight percentage of MWCNT have been varied at three levels and the resulting variables such as wear resistance, grain size and microstructure of the composite focused. Design of experiments planned according to the Taguchi technique for optimizing the response variable wear rate with respect to FSP parameters. It found that the wear resistance has been enhanced to 78.72 %   when compared to base metal. The relevant plots obtained pertaining to the experimental data using Minitab -17 software to reiterate and analyse the results accordingly to conclude.

Keywords: Friction, Aluminium, Pin-on-Disc, Taguchi, Wear

[This article belongs to Special Issue under section in Journal of Polymer and Composites (jopc)]

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Mohd Firasath Ali, Syed Azeem Pasha, Syed Mujahed Hussaini. Wear Attribute of Aluminium Metal Matrix Composite Reinforced With MWCNT, Produced By FSP, On A Vertical Milling Machine. Journal of Polymer and Composites. 2024; 13(01):525-539.
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Mohd Firasath Ali, Syed Azeem Pasha, Syed Mujahed Hussaini. Wear Attribute of Aluminium Metal Matrix Composite Reinforced With MWCNT, Produced By FSP, On A Vertical Milling Machine. Journal of Polymer and Composites. 2024; 13(01):525-539. Available from: https://journals.stmjournals.com/jopc/article=2024/view=188703


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Special Issue Open Access Original Research
Volume 13
Special Issue 01
Received 02/08/2024
Accepted 30/08/2024
Published 10/12/2024
Publication Time 130 Days
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