Casting and hot isostatic pressing of silicon carbide particulate reinforced alumimium alloy based composites

• Main Author: Xu, Zi Ming.
• Other Authors: Zhou, Wei
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials::Composite materials
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/19977
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

SiC particulate reinforced composites based on two aluminium alloys (A3 56 and 6061) were produced by conventional stir-casting technique in the present study. A two-step mixing method was used to disperse the SiC particles in the aluminium alloys and was found to improve the wetting and distributio...