Comparative Study Between Silica Gel- Aluminium & Crystalline Silica – Aluminium Composites Developed through P/M Route

Abstract

Authors have taken an attempt towards developing silica gel- aluminium composites in which silica percentage was varied from 2.5 Wt. % to 30 Wt. %. Surface morphology of each sintered composite was analyzed with optical microscopy (OM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Accordance with surface morphology analysis, various physical and mechanical properties have observed and reported in this paper. A parallel attempt has taken towards making a comparative study between silica gel- aluminium composites and crystalline silica- aluminium composites, having same compositions, developed through same environment.