Centrifugal casting is one of the potential manufacturing techniques used for producing near net shaped components with improved properties. The emergence of new class of functionally graded materials has made it an important ...

Coconut fibre has been used as reinforcement in low-density polyethylene. The effect of natural waxy surface layer of the fibre on fibre/matrix interfacial bonding and composite properties has been studied by single fibre ...

Equal channel angular pressing (ECAP) of in situ Al-5 wt% TiB2 composite was successfully carried out at room temperature up to four passes. Large particle free zones of about 50-100 mu m size present in as cast condition ...

The present study analyzes the morphological transformations of reaction products i.e., MgO, MgAl2O4 occurring during the reaction between SiO2 and Al-Mg alloy in Al-Mg-SiO2 composite processed by the liquid metallurgy ...

Microstructural characterisation carried out on four non-dendritic feedstocks in the as received and reheated conditions has revealed that the transition from dendritic to non-dendritic occurs through the formation of ...

The reclamation process by salt flux addition has been employed to extract the interfacial reaction products as well as SiCp from Al-SiCp composites. It has been observed that this process enables the use of X-ray diffraction ...

A large number of components for engineering and structural applications demand location specific performance under service conditions. A gradual transition in the composition or microstructure motivates the changes in ...

The roles of the melt and the mould material on the cooling curve parameters and the heat transfer at the casting/mould interface during solidification of Al(356) alloy and its composites reinforced with silicon carbide ...

The formation of Al(2)O(3), MgAl(2)O(4), and MgO has been widely studied in different Al base metal matrix composites, but the studies on thermodynamic aspects of the Al(2)O(3)/ MgAl(2)O(4)/MgO phase equilibria have been ...