Journal of Material Sciences & Engineering

Experimental Investigation of Mechanical Properties on Synthesized AA 6061 Reinforced with B4C

Abstract

Hartaj Singh, Kapil Singh, Sachit Vardhan

Aluminium metrics based aluminium alloys have numerous applications in the field of modern technology. The aluminium alloys having three
platforms of industrial applications which are widely used in electronics goods, ground transportation such as automobile, aerospace
engineering and marine as well as military purposes. Aluminium alloys having low density, lightweight, excellent malleability and high
strength are the key potency of these alloys. At present, the aluminium alloys are the capability to full fill the current demand of the modern
industry. To enhance the mechanical properties of this aluminium alloys can be developed by reinforcing with ceramics such as SiC,
MgO, Gr and so on are used to achieve the desirable properties of the
materials. The present works investigated on Al 6061/B4C composites have been synthesized with different weight percentages of B4C (0, 1, 5,
and 15%) along with varied particulate sizes of 50, 100 and 150 μm were used. The cast composites were produced
via stir casting method and the addition of B4C particles in the base matrix has been analysis by SEM. The mechanical property such as
Vickers hardness and UTS has been studied and the values of ultimate tensile strength have been optimized using the Taguchi method