High fuel consumption by automobile and aerospace vehicles built from legacy alloys has
been a great challenge to global design and material engineers. This has called for …

Abstract Aluminum alloy 6063 (AA6063) composite with varying proportion of snail-shell-ash
(SSA) and silicon carbide (SiC) reinforcement has been developed by stir-casting. Hardness …

In this study, investigation on machinability characteristic of aluminum silicon carbide
composite on electrical discharge machine is carried out. The composites are prepared …

Friction stir welding is a non consumable material state welding process for joining of
dissimilar aluminum alloys and is used in aerospace, railway, automotive and nautical …

Iron contamination in secondary aluminum scrap must be diluted with primary aluminum
during conventional recycling to bring subsequent alloys within allowable Fe limits. In this …

Extensive usage of aluminum metal-matrix composites (AMC) in automobiles, defense, etc.
promotes for the development of the global need of a new hybrid green metal matrix …

Silicon carbide particles-reinforced Al4Cu composites containing 2.5, 5 and 7.5 wt.% of
reinforcement were fabricated using powder metallurgy (PM) technique. The sintered Al4Cu …

The paper presents the effect of the holding time, varying between 1 min 15 s and 10 min, on
the microstructure evolution and development of selected properties of spark plasma …

In an engine the purpose of the piston is to transfer force from expanding gas in the cylinder
to the crank shaft via a piston rod. Piston has to endure the cyclic gas pressure and the …

The objective of this work is to reinforce Tungsten Carbide (WC) onto the surface of AA 6063
aluminium alloy using Gas Tungsten Arc (GTA) as heat source and investigate the hardness …