Investigation of high pressure squeeze casting of stainless steel wire reinforced aluminium matrix composites

Abstract

High strength and less weight materials are required for industrial expectations with low cost for their working process. Nonferrous materials are less in weight but the strength of the material is less compared to ferrous materials. Ferrous materials having high strength but it have more weight when compared to nonferrous materials. To make the combination of ferrous and non-ferrous materials properties are increased by its strength. The weight of the material is to be reduced but its mechanical and metallurgical properties have to be improved. The non-ferrous material like aluminium has less weight and the ferrous material like steel has high strength. These two materials make a combination of considerable weight providing high strength. The steel wire and steel mesh are reinforced in aluminium alloy by squeeze casting and gravity die casting method. After the process has been done testing methods has been processed on the materials to check the mechanical and metallurgical properties. Were aluminium (LM6) and steel wires of 1 mm diameter were used as the reinforcement increased the mechanical strength and metallurgical properties.