Evaluation On Mechanical Properties Of Graphene And S-glass Reinforced Al-6061 Metal Matrix Composites

  Verma. R,  Dr. H k shivanand,  Dr. Tukaram Jadhav,  Dr. Ranjith V,  Puneeth P

This research work investigated the influence of the graphene and S-glass fiber on the hardness of the Al6061 / S-Glass & Graphene particulate MMCs. Metal Matrix Composites (MMC’s) consist of either pure metal or an alloy as the matrix material, while the reinforcement generally a ceramic material. Aluminium composites are considered as one of the advanced engineering materials which have attracted more and more benefits. Now a day these materials are widely used in space shuttle, commercial airlines, electronic substrates, bicycles, automobiles, etc., Among the MMC’s Aluminium composites are predominant in use due to their low weight and high strength. The key features of MMC’s are specific strength and stiffness, excellent wear resistance, high electrical and thermal conductivity. Hence, it is proposed to form a new class of composite. The Al 6061(Aluminium alloy 6061) reinforced with graphene and S-glass fiber to form MMCs were investigated. The stir casting technique of liquid metallurgy was used for the fabrication of the composite material. The composite was produced for different percentages of graphene and S-Glass fiber (varying Graphene with constant S-Glass fiber and varying S-Glass fiber with constant Graphene percentage). The specimens were prepared as per ASTM standard size by turning and facing operations to conduct tensile, compression and hardness and they were tested using Universal Testing Machine and Brinell hardness testing machine. The effect of Graphene and S-glass particles on the strength in Al-6061 alloys has been studied.

Keywords- Al 6061, Graphene, S-Glass fiber, Tensile Test, Compression test and Hardness

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR2102050
Page Number(s) - 300-309
Pubished in - Volume 9 | Issue 2 | June 2021
DOI (Digital Object Identifier) -   
Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Verma. R,  Dr. H k shivanand,  Dr. Tukaram Jadhav,  Dr. Ranjith V,  Puneeth P,   "Evaluation On Mechanical Properties Of Graphene And S-glass Reinforced Al-6061 Metal Matrix Composites", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.9, Issue 2, pp.300-309, June 2021, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR2102050.pdf