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1. INTRODUCTION
Aluminium is extensively used nowadays
in manufacturing IC engine components, gears,
pipe fittings, bushes, bearings, pumps etc.
Replacing the conventional ferrous alloys.
Composites came into existence when a need to
combine the properties of different combination
of materials occurred. A reinforced phase, in the
form of fibre, powder, sheets or particles; when
infiltrated or dispersed in the matrix phase, that
could be in slurry, porous or foam structure; a
new material with better properties than the
parent phases is obtained with a proper choice of
manufacturing
process
and
processing
parameters. Nano composites are a newer kind of
composites where the reinforcing phase has its
one, two or three dimensions at Nano level (10-9).
In the study, the matrix phase is Aluminium and
the reinforcement is multi-wall carbon nanotube.
The grade of Aluminium alloy used is Aluminium
LM25. Nano composites differ from conventional
composites because of its high surface-to-volume
ratio of its reinforcing phase. Macro-scale
properties can be substantially increased with
addition
of
a
minuscule
nano-scale
reinforcement. Cast aluminium alloys yielding
cost-effective products when infiltrated with a
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2. LITERATURE REVIEW
Composite materials contain a matrix with
one or more physically distinct, distributed
phases, known as reinforcement phases or fillers.
The reinforcement or filler is added to the matrix
to obtain the desired or enhanced properties such
as high strength, toughness, thermal and
electrical
properties,
wear
and
damping
resistance. Application of composite materials can
be found anywhere especially from planes to cars
and sports equipments. Callister (2007) et al
metal matrix composites (MMCs) are composite
materials in which the basic constituent (the
matrix) contribute at least 50 % by volume is a
metal, and the reinforcements whether one
element or more could be a metal, ceramic or an
organic compound. The materials used as a
matrix in these composites are usually Al,
magnesium, copper, titanium, Al-lithium, and
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3. EXPERIMENTATION OF
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4.
TESTING
AND
RESULTS
ALUMINIUM WITH MWCNT
OF
Impact
Streng
th
(j/mm)
Aluminium
Lm 25
Aluminiu
m
With
"3"
gram
Mwcnt
Aluminium
With "7"
gram
Mwcnt
S.no
Material
Aluminium
Lm25
142
140
0.03125
142
134
0.125
142
138
0.0625
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Aluminium
with 3
gram
Mwcnt
Aluminium
with 7
gram
Mwcnt
Diameter
of the
Indenter
(mm)
1/16 ball
1/16 ball
1/16 ball
Scale
reading
71
70
72
75
80
69
76
75
72
Avg.
scale
reading
Rockwell
hardness
number
(RHN)
71
71
75
75
74
74
4
Impact Factor value:
4.45
ALUMINIUM LM ALUMINIUM
WITH 3
GRAM
25
ALUMINIUM
WITH 7
GRAM
Material type
Aluminium
Lm25
197
Aluminium
Lm25with 3grm
Mwcnt
Aluminium
Lm25with 7grm
Mwcnt
272
233
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Aluminium
with 3 gram
Mwcnt
Without load
Aluminium
With 3
gram
Mwcnt
with Load
Aluminium
With 7
gram
Mwcnt
without
Load
Aluminium
With 7
gram
Mwcnt
With load
103
0.3
165
6.1
70
0.2
196
8.1
Wear
value
Friction
value
180
0.7
298
9.3
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The
authors
express
their sincere
gratitude to Mr. Arul Murugan, Mr. Sree Vijay and
Mr.C.Sudhahar faculty of Mechanical Engineering,
Mahendra
Institute
Of
Engineering
And
Technology, Thiruchengode, Namakkal for their
support and encouragement.
REFERENCES
1. Carbon Nanotube-Reinforced Aluminium
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on micro lapping surfacebyBiing-Hwa Yan,
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3. Nano composites 2006by Del Stark,
Marriott Hotel Brussels, March 15th 2006.
4. Multifunctional properties of high volume
fraction aligned carbon nanotube polymer
composites with controlled morphology,
Hlya Cebeci , Roberto Guzman de Villoria
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Materials, bing Q. Han, enrique J. Lavernia
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5. CONCLUSIONS
From the five different type of testing the
nano composites gave better tensile strength,
wear resistance, friction, hardness and impact
strength, micro structure than the aluminium
alloy. Usage of nano composites instead of
aluminium alloy in the engineering field like
automobile, aerospace and marine field where
mechanical properties need to be more precise
then what we get in alloys for preventing wear
and friction like in the automobile cylinder.
Regarding these applications, field cost could not
cause a big problem, which resulted as the
demerit of using nano composites. So to our
conclusion nano composites can be handy and
useful in such fields.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
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BIOGRAPHIES
C.SOMU,
Assistant
professor, Department of
Mechanical
Engineering,
SNS College of Technology,
Coimbatore, India.
M.AMAL
MADHU,
PG
Scholar,
Department
of
Mechanical
Engineering,
PSG College of Technology,
Coimbatore, India
A.JAGADEESAN,
Assistant
Professor, Department of
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Mechanical
Engineering,
Mahendra
Institute
Of
Engineering
And
Technology, Thiruchengode,
Namakkal, India.
N.DHAYANANDH,
UG
Scholar,
Department
of
Mechanical
Engineering,
SNS College of Technology,
Coimbatore, India.
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