THE ABRASIVE WEAR BEHAVIOR OF CENOSPHERE-ALUMINIUM METAL MATRIX COMPOSITE

Wear is the major parameter for various applications in automobile and aeronautical industries. Various researches are going on to improve the wear by either alloying the material or using the composite material. Current study focuses on wear improvement through composite material with aluminium as matrix and cenospheres as re-inforcement. The abrasive wear behavior of cenosphere particle reinforced aluminium alloy (AA) 6063 was investigated using pin-on-disc technique. Aluminium - cenosphere metal matrix composite was fabricated by adding various percentages of cenosphere particles using stir casting technique and its abrasive wear behavior was compared with AA6063. The uniform distribution of particles was ensured with the help of scanning electron microscopy (SEM).