Investigation on microstructure and tensile behaviour of stir cast LM13 aluminium alloy reinforced with copper coated short steel fibers using response surface methodology

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Samson Jerold Samuel Chelladurai
Ramesh Arthanari
Rohith Selvarajan
Ramakrishnan Kanagaraj
Palanisamy Angappan
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[1] Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology,Department of Mechanical Engineering
[2] Sri Krishna College of Technology,Department of Mechanical Engineering
[3] National Institute of Technology,Department of Production Engineering
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Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals | 2018年 / 71卷
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Aluminium alloy; Steel fibers; Stir casting; Microstructure; Tensile strength;
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Copper coated steel fibers reinforced LM13 aluminium alloy composites have been prepared using stir casting process. Experiments have been designed using response surface methodology by varying wt% of reinforcement (0–10), stirrer speed (350–800 rpm) and pouring temperature (700–800 °C). Microstructure, tensile strength and fracture surface of composites have been investigated. Analysis of variance, significance test and confirmation tests have been performed and regressions models have been developed to predict the tensile strength of composites. Response surface plots reveal that tensile strength of composites increases with increasing wt% of copper coated steel fibers reinforcement up to 6 wt%. Further increase in wt% of steel fibers decreases the tensile strength of composites. However tensile strength of composites increases with increasing stirrer speed due to the uniform and homogeneous dispersion of steel fibers in matrix. Optimum stir cast process parameters for obtaining higher tensile strength are found to be 5.9 wt% of reinforcement, 753 °C pouring temperature and stirrer speed of 633 rpm. Fracture mechanism is dominated by steel fiber pullouts in composites with higher wt% of reinforcement and dimples are observed in the surface of composites containing lower levels of wt% of reinforcement.
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页数:9
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