FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF ALUMINUM MATRIX COMPOSITE REINFORCED WITH WASTE GLASS FOR DEVICES APPLICATION

SAMUEL, TENAGER

dc.contributor.author	SAMUEL, TENAGER
dc.date.accessioned	2021-03-04T11:49:26Z
dc.date.available	2021-03-04T11:49:26Z
dc.date.issued	2021-03-04
dc.identifier.uri	http://ir.bdu.edu.et/handle/123456789/12031
dc.description.abstract	Materials exist in nature are non-renewable and scares. To overcome these shortcomings and to meet the ever increasing demand of modern day technology composites are most promising materials of recent interest that can replace metals and insulators for different advanced devices application. This stimulates curiosity to study aluminum metal matrix composite reinforced with waste glass to enhance its mechanical and thermal properties. The specimens were prepared using stir casting method and the reinforcing waste glass powder concentration were varied as 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25% and 30% by weight. This research focus on the fabrication and characterization of Al-6061 metal matrix based composite reinforced with waste glass powder for advanced engineering application. The fabricated composite samples were characterized using Universal testing machine, FTIR, DSC, TGA, Optical Microscope and sieve analysis. The results show that Aluminum metal matrix composite reinforced with glass powder has shown enhanced the mechanical properties like wear resistance, hardness, impact, compression and tensile strength as compared to the parent material and its maximum value are indicated at weight percentage of [30%, 20%, 25% 20%, 20%] respectively. The micro-structural properties analyzed using optical microscope shows good bonding between the reinforcements and matrix materials in the composite that indicates the glass particulates are uniformly distributed in the Al 6061 matrix. Generally the effect of waste glass powder in Aluminum metal matrix composite clearly observed and it increased the mechanical, physical and thermal properties of the new composite materials. Key words: Al-6061, waste glass powder, stir casting, mechanical properties and Microstructural properties.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.subject	MATERIALS SCIENCE	en_US
dc.title	FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF ALUMINUM MATRIX COMPOSITE REINFORCED WITH WASTE GLASS FOR DEVICES APPLICATION	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US