Study of tensile properties for aluminum 6061 reinforced with AISI 1060 steel machining chips
The present study focuses on the tensile properties of Aluminum 6061 reinforced with AISI1060 Steel machining chips. Three different types of samples of aluminium 6061 reinforced with AISI 1060 steel machining chips were prepared using stir casting. The tensile test was conducted using universal t...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Penerbit UTHM
2021
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/1758/1/J12117_fe3e2c7d1be8eba4ac0ff57b8819fb20.pdf |
| Summary: | The present study focuses on the tensile properties of Aluminum 6061 reinforced with AISI1060 Steel
machining chips. Three different types of samples of aluminium 6061 reinforced with AISI 1060 steel machining
chips were prepared using stir casting. The tensile test was conducted using universal test machine (UTM) for
fabricated composites to study the tensile properties of aluminium 6061 reinforced with steel machining chips AISI
1060.The samples were prepared with different composition of AISI 1060 steel machining chip of 5%, 10% and
15% according to the weight fraction of parameter variable. Two casting processes were applied in this project
namely stir casting and sand casting process. The stir casting was used to mix the two different metals to become a
composite at temperature between 750℃ to 800℃ in a furnace while sand casting was used to fabricate the
samples into ASTM-E8M standard for tensile testing. The results showed that the samples with higher
reinforcement percentages of steel machining (15%) showed higher tensile stress and higher modulus value
characteristic compared to other samples. The experiment proved that the reinforcement material has good
mechanical properties compared to the pure material. |
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