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Thesis Type: Postgraduate
Institution Of The Thesis: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Turkey
Approval Date: 2004
Student: AZİZ KURTOĞLU
Co-Supervisor: NACİ SEVİNÇ, ALİ KALKANLI
Abstract:This study is on the production and testing of an aluminum metal matrix composite. Metal Matrix Composites can be produced in several different ways. In this study, an aluminum matrix composite is produced by direct addition of the reinforcement ceramic into the liquid metal. The ceramic reinforcement for this process was a mixture of TiB2 and Al2O3 which was produced by means of a thermite reaction of reactants Al, B2O3 and TiO2 all in powder form with their respective stoichiometric amounts. This ceramic mixture was ground to fine powder size and then added to liquid aluminum in small percentages. After casting and taking samples of unreinforced alloy and reinforced alloys, their tensile strength and hardness as material properties were measured and compared. Another issue is the wetting of ceramic particles by molten Aluminum. The aim of the experiments in general is to find a better way to produce a composite material with desired mechanical properties.