Experimental Investigation of Aluminium (Al6061) Alloy with Fly Ash Metal Matrix Composite Material

Abstract

Metal Matrix Composite (MMC) material performs the critical position in the area of automobile, civil and mechanical industries because of its stability and much less weight. In this, metal matrix composite is one in which the micro level analysis and the investigation has been carried out for the application based on the load-bearing structure with respect to wear, fatigue, etc. The metal-matrix improves strength, less weight, impact strength, stiffness and wear properties are analysed and replaced to the traditional building materials and other applications. In this paper, the effect of different reinforcements and concrete stability with the influence of chemicals of their metal-matrix bonding problems is analysed. The proposed material in the study is Aluminium (Al6061), Fly ash and Epoxy resin, which is more flexible and chemically bonded with their properties. Composite materials specimen fabricated with American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) standard, size with the varied ratio of 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, and 25% resulted respectively. Through the experimental results the fatigue and wear test of every specimen for various parameters of load variation and ratio of mixing is found. The microstructure level analysis is done with a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM). Finally, the optimization of the parameters is done with the grey fuzzy algorithm in MATLAB.