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International Journal of Engineering Inventions
e-ISSN: 2278-7461, p-ISSN: 2319-6491
Volume 3, Issue 4 (November 2013) PP: 01-08

Effect of Squeeze pressure on the hardness and wear resistance of
Aluminium flyash composite manufactured by stir-squeeze
casting
K.N.P. Prasad1, M. Ramachandra2
1

Associate Professor Dept of Industrial Engineering & Management BMSCE Bangalore
2
Professor Dept of Mechanical Engineering BMSCE Bangalore

ABSTRACT: In the present investigation LM6 aluminium alloy was reinforced with 7.5% by weight flyash
particles. The composite was prepared by stir-squeeze casting method. Different squeeze pressure was applied
on the composite to study the effect of squeeze pressure on the hardness and abrasive wear behavior of the
composite. It was observed that as the squeeze pressure was increased the hardness and the wear resistance
also improved. The wear experiments were conducted at different speeds and loads using abrasive wear tester
and the hardness test was performed using Brinell’s hardness tester. The results of hardness and the wear
resistance was compared with that of the monolithic alloy produced by gravity casting and also by squeeze
casting. It was clearly evident from the results obtained that the composites produced by squeeze casting was
superior in hardness and wear resistance than the monolithic alloy produced by gravity casting and squeeze
casting. The increase in hardness and the wear resistance is attributed to the volume fraction of the
reinforcement used and decrease in the porosity level due to the application of squeeze pressure.

Keywords: Al-flyash mmc, Abrasive wear, Hardness, Squeeze pressure
I.

INTRODUCTION

Conventional monolithic materials have limitations in achieving good combination of strength,
stiffness, toughness and wear resistance. To overcome these shortcomings and to meet the increasing demand of
modern day technology, composites have gained lot of attention because of the ability to tailor them to meet the
required physical, mechanical, and tribological properties for a given application. There has been an increasing
interest in the production of composites having low density and low cost reinforcements. Among various
discontinuous dispersoids used, fly ash is found to be one of the most inexpensive and low density
reinforcement available in large quantities as solid waste by-product during combustion of coal in thermal
power plants. Flyash consists of, namely, precipitator (solid particle) and cenosphere (hollow particle) flyash.
The major chemical constituents of fly ash are SiO2, Al2O3, Fe2O3 and CaO. Mineralogically, the fly ash
consists of aluminosilicate glasses containing quartz, mullite, hematite, magnetite, ferrite, spinel, anhydride and
alumina (1). The particle size of the fly ash as received from the power plants generally lies in the range from 1
to 150 µm, while cenosphere fly ash particles have sizes ranging from 10 to 250 µm. It is reported that
incorporation of fly ash particles improves the wear resistance, damping properties, hardness and stiffness and
reduces the density of Al alloys (2 - 6). Therefore, composites with fly ash as reinforcement are likely to
overcome the cost barrier for wide spread applications in automotive, small engine and the electromechanical
industry sectors (7, 8). Hence it is expected that the incorporation of fly ash particles in aluminium alloy will
promote the use of this low-cost waste by-product and, at the same time, has the potential for conserving energy
intensive aluminium and thereby, reducing the cost of aluminium products (9).
Amongst the various processing methods practiced for the production of metallic components, casting
is found to be more popular because of its simplicity and also being economical in nature. But due to certain
drawbacks such as porosity, segregation, hot tears the castings produced will be having poor mechanical
properties. In order to overcome these defects a recent technique called squeeze casting has been developed.
The castings produced by this method have been known to show superior strength and other improved
mechanical properties (10 - 13). It is also observed that composites produced by squeeze casting technique
results in homogeneous distribution of reinforcement in metal matrix (14). There has been a continuous effort
by the researchers in the pursuit of finding a material for the production of automobile components that shows
improvement in mechanical properties and wear behavior with reduced weight (15). In the automobile and other
allied industries there is a greater demand for the production of castings where strength and wear resistance is of
paramount importance (16). It is reported by many researchers that the externally applied pressure on the melt
reduces the porosity and voids and increases the densification of the material (17 - 21). Squeeze casting process
is used for most of the low melting temperature non-ferrous alloys. Because of its wider application, abundancy
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in nature and due to some of its good properties, aluminium alloys find greater usage in the production of
various components (22).

II.

EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE

2.1 MATERIALS USED
Aluminium casting alloy of LM6 grade has been used as the matrix material in the present
investigation. The chemical composition of the aluminium alloy is as shown in the Table.1. The aluminium
alloy was reinforced with 7.5 wt% flyash to synthesize the composite through liquid metallurgy route followed
by squeeze casting. The flyash which is used as a reinforcing material was tested in the laboratory and the test
results are as given the Table.2.
Table 1: Chemical composition of the LM6 aluminium alloy.
Chemical
Composition
Wt. %

Cu

Mg

Zn

Fe

Mn

Si

Al

0.002

0.065

0.021

0.32

0.62

12.2

Balance

Table 2: Chemical composition of the flyash.
Sio2
63.96%

Tio2
0.5%

Al2O3
25.5%

Density of Fly ash = 1.31 g/cc.

Fe2O3
6.07%

CaO
1.97%

MgO
0.81%

Na2O
0.54%

Type of Flyash: F Class (CaO < 20%)

K2O
0.45%

L.O.I
0.15%

SO3
<0.1%

Source: RTPS Raichur (India)

2.2 Processing
The composites were produced by liquid metallurgy route which was followed by squeeze casting.
Firstly the matrix material was superheated to 800oC in the Electric resistance furnace. It was then de-gassed by
using Hexa-chloroethane tablets. By using a mechanical stirrer with a rotational speed of 600 rpm the vortex
was created. At this stage the flyash which was preheated at 150 oC to remove any moisture content was slowly
introduced into the molten slurry. A small quantity of magnesium was also added into the molten metal to
enhance the wettability of the reinforcements with molten metal. The stirring of the slurry was carried out for
nearly five minutes to promote wetting and uniform dispersion of the reinforcement. After that a metered
quantity of mixture was poured into the preheated steel die of D4 grade mounted on the 20 tonne Hydraulic
press and was squeezed through the punch by the application of pressure. The pressure applied was 30, 60, 90,
and 120 bar. The formulation of different MMCs used in the study is shown in Table 3. The squeezed castings
were allowed to cool down in the die itself to the room temperature and were later ejected out from the die.
Apart from composites, casting of base aluminium alloy was also cast by gravity method and by squeeze casting
method for the comparison purpose. All the castings were later machined to prepare the test specimen for
conducting hardness and abrasive wear tests. The photographs of the sample specimen are shown in Fig.1
Table 3: Formulations of different MMCs used in the study

Specimen
C1
C2
C3
C4
Sq. cast (SC)
Gr. cast (GC)

Matrix
material used
(Al)
LM6
LM6
LM6
LM6
LM6
LM6

Flyash
(%)
7.5
7.5
7.5
7.5
-----

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wt.

Pressure applied
(bar)
30
60
90
120
90
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Fig 1: Photographs of the sample specimen

Al-Flyash 7.5wt% Composite

Squeeze Cast Al. alloy

Gravity Cast Al. alloy
2.3 Microstructure
Microstructural characterization studies were conducted on reinforced, squeeze cast and gravity cast
samples. This is accomplished by using Nikon metallurgical microscope. The composite and base alloy samples
were metallographically polished prior to examination.
2.4 Hardness Test
Hardness is one of the important properties which affects wear resistance of any metal or alloy. The
hardness measurements were carried out on Al-flyash particulate composite specimens and also on the
monolithic alloy specimen by using Brinell hardness tester in order to investigate the influence of the squeeze
pressure on hardness. The specimens were prepared and polished on different grits of emery paper. An indenter
steel ball of 10mm diameter and load of 500 kg was applied. The test was carried out at four different locations
to controvert the possible effect of indenter resting on the harder particles and the average of all the four
readings was taken.
2.5 Abrasive Wear test
A three body dry sand abrasive wear test was performed as per ASTM G65 standards on the specimen
to determine the wear rate. The test specimen of size 75mm x 25mm x 8mm were metallographically prepared
and polished. The experiment was conducted at three different loads of 47N, 71N and 95N and speeds of 250,
300 and 350 rpm of the rubber wheel. The silica sand of 50 µm grain size was made to flow at a constant rate of
350 gm/min. The experiment was conducted for five minutes for all the specimens and the weight loss method
was used to determine the wear rate. An electronic weighing balance of 0.1mg accuracy was used for
determining the weight loss.

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III.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS

3.1 Optical Micrographs
The optical micrographs of the composite and base alloy are shown in Fig.2. The microstructure of
MMCs clearly shows a good retention and almost uniform distribution of flyash in the matrix without any voids
and discontinuities. However there is some amount of small agglomeration of flyash particles at some areas in
the composite samples. The micrograph shows good interfacial bonding between the flyash particles and matrix
material. The micrograph of the aluminium alloy squeeze cast sample indicates sound casting with no porosity
or voids present in the sample investigated. It also shows smaller silicon dendritic structure in the matrix due to
the application of the external pressure. The micrograph of the aluminium alloy gravity cast sample shows the
presence of voids and also large needle like silicon structure in the aluminium matrix material.
Fig 2 : Micrographs of composite specimen and base alloy

Al-Flyash (7.5 % wt.) Composite

Al-Flyash (7.5 % wt.) Composite

Squeeze Cast base Al alloy

Gravity Cast base Al alloy

3.2 Hardness Test Results
The results of the hardness test performed on the 7.5 wt.% Aluminium- flyash composite and the
monolithic aluminium alloy produced by squeeze casting and by gravity casting is shown in the Table 4. It is
observed from the Graph 1 that hardness of the gravity cast aluminium alloy is the lowest. The hardness of the
squeeze cast alloy, when compared with the gravity cast alloy has increased by 24%. The increase in hardness
value in the squeeze cast alloy is attributed to the densification of the material due to the externally applied
pressure. It is also observed that the hardness value of the aluminium-flyash composite with 7.5 wt %
reinforcement increases with the increase in the squeeze pressure and the hardness is maximum at 120 bar
pressure. This is attributed to the fact that (i) the harder flyash particle reinforced in the softer aluminium matrix
enhances the hardness of the composite and, (ii) the externally applied pressure increases the densification of the
composite thereby increasing its hardness.
Table 4: Experimental results of Hardness test.
Specimen

%Fly ash

C1
C2
C3
C4
SC
GC

7.5
7.5
7.5
7.5
-

Squeeze pr.
in kg/cm2
30
60
90
120
90
-

Trials
T1
62
64
69
73
67
53

T2
62
65
69
73
69
52

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T3
63
65
68
77
67
57

T4
63
66
69
65
65
55

Avg
BHN
62.5
65
69
72
67
54

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Graph 1: Average BHN Vs Specimen

3.3 Dry sand Abrasive wear test Results
The wear rate results obtained for the Al-flyash composite, monolithic aluminium alloy casting
produced by gravity casting and squeeze casting at different combinations of loads and speeds are shown in
Table 5, 6 and 7. It is observed from Graphs 2, 3 and 4 that the loads and speeds at which the experiment was
conducted, the wear rate of the aluminium alloy produced by gravity casting is more. The wear rate of the
aluminium alloy produced by squeeze casting method is comparatively lesser than the one produced by the
gravity casting method. This is due to the fact that because of the application of the external pressure there is a
densification of the material which has increased the hardness of the casting and that has resulted in the
improvement of the wear resistance. Compared to the wear rate of the aluminium alloy produced by the gravity
casting and squeeze casting the wear rate of the Al-flyash 7.5 wt% composite produced by squeeze casting is
very much less. This is due to the fact that because of the reinforcement of harder flyash particles in the
aluminium matrix and due to the application of the external pressure the hardness of the composite has
increased, which has resisted the abrasion wear substantially.
Table: 5. Experimental Results of Dry sand Abrasive Wear test
Load Applied: 47N
Specimen

Time
(min)

Speed
(rpm)

Total
weight loss (mg)

Wear
rate(mg/min)

C1

5

250

179.9

35.98

C2

5

250

187.4

37.48

C3

5

250

165.5

33.1

C4

5

250

175.3

35.06

SC

5

250

217.7

43.54

GC

5

250

296.2

59.24

C1

5

300

223.7

44.74

C2

5

300

229.4

45.88

C3

5

300

229

45.8

C4

5

300

215.3

43.06

SC

5

300

255

51

GC

5

300

285.8

57.16

C1

5

350

211

42.2

C2

5

350

210.6

42.12

C3

5

350

224.1

44.82

C4

5

350

214.5

42.9

SC

5

350

293

58.6

GC

5

350

314.2

62.84

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Table: 6. Experimental Results of Dry sand Abrasive Wear test
Load Applied: 71N
Specimen

Time
(min)

Speed
(rpm)

Total
weight loss (mg)

Wear
rate(mg/min)

C1

5

250

271.6

54.32

C2

5

250

200.1

40.02

C3

5

250

257.3

51.46

C4

5

250

209.9

41.98

SC

5

250

298.2

59.64

GC

5

250

378.6

75.72

C1

5

300

221

44.2

C2

5

300

181.9

36.38

C3

5

300

204.5

40.9

C4

5

300

229.5

45.9

SC

5

300

275.9

55.18

GC

5

300

374.9

74.98

C1

5

350

276.8

55.36

C2

5

350

209.8

41.96

C3

5

350

283.7

56.74

C4

5

350

228.9

45.78

SC

5

350

351.4

70.28

GC

5

350

401.8

80.36

Table: 7. Experimental Results of Dry sand Abrasive Wear test
Load Applied: 95N
Specimen

Time
(min)

Speed
(rpm)

Total
weight loss (mg)

Wear
rate(mg/min)

C1

5

250

196.8

39.36

C2

5

250

173.3

34.66

C3

5

250

270.4

54.08

C4

5

250

148.9

29.78

SC

5

250

320.1

64.02

GC

5

250

399.3

79.86

C1

5

300

285.1

57.02

C2

5

300

229.3

45.86

C3

5

300

220.5

44.1

C4

5

300

303.7

60.74

SC

5

300

365.3

73.06

GC

5

300

381.2

76.24

C1

5

350

322.9

64.58

C2

5

350

309.6

61.92

C3

5

350

322.4

64.48

C4

5

350

286.5

57.3

SC

5

350

471.4

94.28

GC

5

350

490.3

98.06

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Graph: 2. Wear rate Vs RPM of the Wheel

Graph: 3. Wear rate Vs RPM of the Wheel

Graph: 4. Wear rate Vs RPM of the Wheel

.
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IV.

CONCLUSIONS

From the present investigation the following conclusions are drawn.
1. The abrasive wear rate of LM6 aluminium alloy produced by gravity casting is maximum when compared
to LM6 aluminium alloy produced by squeeze casting and Al-flyash composite.
2. The LM6 aluminium alloy produced by squeeze casting method shows improved resistance to abrasive
wear due to the increased hardness and densification of the material when compared to the base alloy
produced by gravity casting method.
3. The Al-flyash 7.5wt% composite has revealed superior resistance to abrasive wear because of the harder
constituents of flysh reinforcement and increased hardness due to squeeze casting.

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Effect of Squeeze pressure on the hardness and wear resistance of Aluminium flyash composite manufactured by stir-squeeze casting

  • 1. International Journal of Engineering Inventions e-ISSN: 2278-7461, p-ISSN: 2319-6491 Volume 3, Issue 4 (November 2013) PP: 01-08 Effect of Squeeze pressure on the hardness and wear resistance of Aluminium flyash composite manufactured by stir-squeeze casting K.N.P. Prasad1, M. Ramachandra2 1 Associate Professor Dept of Industrial Engineering & Management BMSCE Bangalore 2 Professor Dept of Mechanical Engineering BMSCE Bangalore ABSTRACT: In the present investigation LM6 aluminium alloy was reinforced with 7.5% by weight flyash particles. The composite was prepared by stir-squeeze casting method. Different squeeze pressure was applied on the composite to study the effect of squeeze pressure on the hardness and abrasive wear behavior of the composite. It was observed that as the squeeze pressure was increased the hardness and the wear resistance also improved. The wear experiments were conducted at different speeds and loads using abrasive wear tester and the hardness test was performed using Brinell’s hardness tester. The results of hardness and the wear resistance was compared with that of the monolithic alloy produced by gravity casting and also by squeeze casting. It was clearly evident from the results obtained that the composites produced by squeeze casting was superior in hardness and wear resistance than the monolithic alloy produced by gravity casting and squeeze casting. The increase in hardness and the wear resistance is attributed to the volume fraction of the reinforcement used and decrease in the porosity level due to the application of squeeze pressure. Keywords: Al-flyash mmc, Abrasive wear, Hardness, Squeeze pressure I. INTRODUCTION Conventional monolithic materials have limitations in achieving good combination of strength, stiffness, toughness and wear resistance. To overcome these shortcomings and to meet the increasing demand of modern day technology, composites have gained lot of attention because of the ability to tailor them to meet the required physical, mechanical, and tribological properties for a given application. There has been an increasing interest in the production of composites having low density and low cost reinforcements. Among various discontinuous dispersoids used, fly ash is found to be one of the most inexpensive and low density reinforcement available in large quantities as solid waste by-product during combustion of coal in thermal power plants. Flyash consists of, namely, precipitator (solid particle) and cenosphere (hollow particle) flyash. The major chemical constituents of fly ash are SiO2, Al2O3, Fe2O3 and CaO. Mineralogically, the fly ash consists of aluminosilicate glasses containing quartz, mullite, hematite, magnetite, ferrite, spinel, anhydride and alumina (1). The particle size of the fly ash as received from the power plants generally lies in the range from 1 to 150 µm, while cenosphere fly ash particles have sizes ranging from 10 to 250 µm. It is reported that incorporation of fly ash particles improves the wear resistance, damping properties, hardness and stiffness and reduces the density of Al alloys (2 - 6). Therefore, composites with fly ash as reinforcement are likely to overcome the cost barrier for wide spread applications in automotive, small engine and the electromechanical industry sectors (7, 8). Hence it is expected that the incorporation of fly ash particles in aluminium alloy will promote the use of this low-cost waste by-product and, at the same time, has the potential for conserving energy intensive aluminium and thereby, reducing the cost of aluminium products (9). Amongst the various processing methods practiced for the production of metallic components, casting is found to be more popular because of its simplicity and also being economical in nature. But due to certain drawbacks such as porosity, segregation, hot tears the castings produced will be having poor mechanical properties. In order to overcome these defects a recent technique called squeeze casting has been developed. The castings produced by this method have been known to show superior strength and other improved mechanical properties (10 - 13). It is also observed that composites produced by squeeze casting technique results in homogeneous distribution of reinforcement in metal matrix (14). There has been a continuous effort by the researchers in the pursuit of finding a material for the production of automobile components that shows improvement in mechanical properties and wear behavior with reduced weight (15). In the automobile and other allied industries there is a greater demand for the production of castings where strength and wear resistance is of paramount importance (16). It is reported by many researchers that the externally applied pressure on the melt reduces the porosity and voids and increases the densification of the material (17 - 21). Squeeze casting process is used for most of the low melting temperature non-ferrous alloys. Because of its wider application, abundancy www.ijeijournal.com Page | 1
  • 2. Effect of Squeeze pressure on the hardness and wear resistance of Aluminium flyash composite manufactured by in nature and due to some of its good properties, aluminium alloys find greater usage in the production of various components (22). II. EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE 2.1 MATERIALS USED Aluminium casting alloy of LM6 grade has been used as the matrix material in the present investigation. The chemical composition of the aluminium alloy is as shown in the Table.1. The aluminium alloy was reinforced with 7.5 wt% flyash to synthesize the composite through liquid metallurgy route followed by squeeze casting. The flyash which is used as a reinforcing material was tested in the laboratory and the test results are as given the Table.2. Table 1: Chemical composition of the LM6 aluminium alloy. Chemical Composition Wt. % Cu Mg Zn Fe Mn Si Al 0.002 0.065 0.021 0.32 0.62 12.2 Balance Table 2: Chemical composition of the flyash. Sio2 63.96% Tio2 0.5% Al2O3 25.5% Density of Fly ash = 1.31 g/cc. Fe2O3 6.07% CaO 1.97% MgO 0.81% Na2O 0.54% Type of Flyash: F Class (CaO < 20%) K2O 0.45% L.O.I 0.15% SO3 <0.1% Source: RTPS Raichur (India) 2.2 Processing The composites were produced by liquid metallurgy route which was followed by squeeze casting. Firstly the matrix material was superheated to 800oC in the Electric resistance furnace. It was then de-gassed by using Hexa-chloroethane tablets. By using a mechanical stirrer with a rotational speed of 600 rpm the vortex was created. At this stage the flyash which was preheated at 150 oC to remove any moisture content was slowly introduced into the molten slurry. A small quantity of magnesium was also added into the molten metal to enhance the wettability of the reinforcements with molten metal. The stirring of the slurry was carried out for nearly five minutes to promote wetting and uniform dispersion of the reinforcement. After that a metered quantity of mixture was poured into the preheated steel die of D4 grade mounted on the 20 tonne Hydraulic press and was squeezed through the punch by the application of pressure. The pressure applied was 30, 60, 90, and 120 bar. The formulation of different MMCs used in the study is shown in Table 3. The squeezed castings were allowed to cool down in the die itself to the room temperature and were later ejected out from the die. Apart from composites, casting of base aluminium alloy was also cast by gravity method and by squeeze casting method for the comparison purpose. All the castings were later machined to prepare the test specimen for conducting hardness and abrasive wear tests. The photographs of the sample specimen are shown in Fig.1 Table 3: Formulations of different MMCs used in the study Specimen C1 C2 C3 C4 Sq. cast (SC) Gr. cast (GC) Matrix material used (Al) LM6 LM6 LM6 LM6 LM6 LM6 Flyash (%) 7.5 7.5 7.5 7.5 ----- www.ijeijournal.com wt. Pressure applied (bar) 30 60 90 120 90 --- Page | 2
  • 3. Effect of Squeeze pressure on the hardness and wear resistance of Aluminium flyash composite manufactured by Fig 1: Photographs of the sample specimen Al-Flyash 7.5wt% Composite Squeeze Cast Al. alloy Gravity Cast Al. alloy 2.3 Microstructure Microstructural characterization studies were conducted on reinforced, squeeze cast and gravity cast samples. This is accomplished by using Nikon metallurgical microscope. The composite and base alloy samples were metallographically polished prior to examination. 2.4 Hardness Test Hardness is one of the important properties which affects wear resistance of any metal or alloy. The hardness measurements were carried out on Al-flyash particulate composite specimens and also on the monolithic alloy specimen by using Brinell hardness tester in order to investigate the influence of the squeeze pressure on hardness. The specimens were prepared and polished on different grits of emery paper. An indenter steel ball of 10mm diameter and load of 500 kg was applied. The test was carried out at four different locations to controvert the possible effect of indenter resting on the harder particles and the average of all the four readings was taken. 2.5 Abrasive Wear test A three body dry sand abrasive wear test was performed as per ASTM G65 standards on the specimen to determine the wear rate. The test specimen of size 75mm x 25mm x 8mm were metallographically prepared and polished. The experiment was conducted at three different loads of 47N, 71N and 95N and speeds of 250, 300 and 350 rpm of the rubber wheel. The silica sand of 50 µm grain size was made to flow at a constant rate of 350 gm/min. The experiment was conducted for five minutes for all the specimens and the weight loss method was used to determine the wear rate. An electronic weighing balance of 0.1mg accuracy was used for determining the weight loss. www.ijeijournal.com Page | 3
  • 4. Effect of Squeeze pressure on the hardness and wear resistance of Aluminium flyash composite manufactured by III. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS 3.1 Optical Micrographs The optical micrographs of the composite and base alloy are shown in Fig.2. The microstructure of MMCs clearly shows a good retention and almost uniform distribution of flyash in the matrix without any voids and discontinuities. However there is some amount of small agglomeration of flyash particles at some areas in the composite samples. The micrograph shows good interfacial bonding between the flyash particles and matrix material. The micrograph of the aluminium alloy squeeze cast sample indicates sound casting with no porosity or voids present in the sample investigated. It also shows smaller silicon dendritic structure in the matrix due to the application of the external pressure. The micrograph of the aluminium alloy gravity cast sample shows the presence of voids and also large needle like silicon structure in the aluminium matrix material. Fig 2 : Micrographs of composite specimen and base alloy Al-Flyash (7.5 % wt.) Composite Al-Flyash (7.5 % wt.) Composite Squeeze Cast base Al alloy Gravity Cast base Al alloy 3.2 Hardness Test Results The results of the hardness test performed on the 7.5 wt.% Aluminium- flyash composite and the monolithic aluminium alloy produced by squeeze casting and by gravity casting is shown in the Table 4. It is observed from the Graph 1 that hardness of the gravity cast aluminium alloy is the lowest. The hardness of the squeeze cast alloy, when compared with the gravity cast alloy has increased by 24%. The increase in hardness value in the squeeze cast alloy is attributed to the densification of the material due to the externally applied pressure. It is also observed that the hardness value of the aluminium-flyash composite with 7.5 wt % reinforcement increases with the increase in the squeeze pressure and the hardness is maximum at 120 bar pressure. This is attributed to the fact that (i) the harder flyash particle reinforced in the softer aluminium matrix enhances the hardness of the composite and, (ii) the externally applied pressure increases the densification of the composite thereby increasing its hardness. Table 4: Experimental results of Hardness test. Specimen %Fly ash C1 C2 C3 C4 SC GC 7.5 7.5 7.5 7.5 - Squeeze pr. in kg/cm2 30 60 90 120 90 - Trials T1 62 64 69 73 67 53 T2 62 65 69 73 69 52 www.ijeijournal.com T3 63 65 68 77 67 57 T4 63 66 69 65 65 55 Avg BHN 62.5 65 69 72 67 54 Page | 4
  • 5. Effect of Squeeze pressure on the hardness and wear resistance of Aluminium flyash composite manufactured by Graph 1: Average BHN Vs Specimen 3.3 Dry sand Abrasive wear test Results The wear rate results obtained for the Al-flyash composite, monolithic aluminium alloy casting produced by gravity casting and squeeze casting at different combinations of loads and speeds are shown in Table 5, 6 and 7. It is observed from Graphs 2, 3 and 4 that the loads and speeds at which the experiment was conducted, the wear rate of the aluminium alloy produced by gravity casting is more. The wear rate of the aluminium alloy produced by squeeze casting method is comparatively lesser than the one produced by the gravity casting method. This is due to the fact that because of the application of the external pressure there is a densification of the material which has increased the hardness of the casting and that has resulted in the improvement of the wear resistance. Compared to the wear rate of the aluminium alloy produced by the gravity casting and squeeze casting the wear rate of the Al-flyash 7.5 wt% composite produced by squeeze casting is very much less. This is due to the fact that because of the reinforcement of harder flyash particles in the aluminium matrix and due to the application of the external pressure the hardness of the composite has increased, which has resisted the abrasion wear substantially. Table: 5. Experimental Results of Dry sand Abrasive Wear test Load Applied: 47N Specimen Time (min) Speed (rpm) Total weight loss (mg) Wear rate(mg/min) C1 5 250 179.9 35.98 C2 5 250 187.4 37.48 C3 5 250 165.5 33.1 C4 5 250 175.3 35.06 SC 5 250 217.7 43.54 GC 5 250 296.2 59.24 C1 5 300 223.7 44.74 C2 5 300 229.4 45.88 C3 5 300 229 45.8 C4 5 300 215.3 43.06 SC 5 300 255 51 GC 5 300 285.8 57.16 C1 5 350 211 42.2 C2 5 350 210.6 42.12 C3 5 350 224.1 44.82 C4 5 350 214.5 42.9 SC 5 350 293 58.6 GC 5 350 314.2 62.84 www.ijeijournal.com Page | 5
  • 6. Effect of Squeeze pressure on the hardness and wear resistance of Aluminium flyash composite manufactured by Table: 6. Experimental Results of Dry sand Abrasive Wear test Load Applied: 71N Specimen Time (min) Speed (rpm) Total weight loss (mg) Wear rate(mg/min) C1 5 250 271.6 54.32 C2 5 250 200.1 40.02 C3 5 250 257.3 51.46 C4 5 250 209.9 41.98 SC 5 250 298.2 59.64 GC 5 250 378.6 75.72 C1 5 300 221 44.2 C2 5 300 181.9 36.38 C3 5 300 204.5 40.9 C4 5 300 229.5 45.9 SC 5 300 275.9 55.18 GC 5 300 374.9 74.98 C1 5 350 276.8 55.36 C2 5 350 209.8 41.96 C3 5 350 283.7 56.74 C4 5 350 228.9 45.78 SC 5 350 351.4 70.28 GC 5 350 401.8 80.36 Table: 7. Experimental Results of Dry sand Abrasive Wear test Load Applied: 95N Specimen Time (min) Speed (rpm) Total weight loss (mg) Wear rate(mg/min) C1 5 250 196.8 39.36 C2 5 250 173.3 34.66 C3 5 250 270.4 54.08 C4 5 250 148.9 29.78 SC 5 250 320.1 64.02 GC 5 250 399.3 79.86 C1 5 300 285.1 57.02 C2 5 300 229.3 45.86 C3 5 300 220.5 44.1 C4 5 300 303.7 60.74 SC 5 300 365.3 73.06 GC 5 300 381.2 76.24 C1 5 350 322.9 64.58 C2 5 350 309.6 61.92 C3 5 350 322.4 64.48 C4 5 350 286.5 57.3 SC 5 350 471.4 94.28 GC 5 350 490.3 98.06 www.ijeijournal.com Page | 6
  • 7. Effect of Squeeze pressure on the hardness and wear resistance of Aluminium flyash composite manufactured by Graph: 2. Wear rate Vs RPM of the Wheel Graph: 3. Wear rate Vs RPM of the Wheel Graph: 4. Wear rate Vs RPM of the Wheel . www.ijeijournal.com Page | 7
  • 8. Effect of Squeeze pressure on the hardness and wear resistance of Aluminium flyash composite manufactured by IV. CONCLUSIONS From the present investigation the following conclusions are drawn. 1. The abrasive wear rate of LM6 aluminium alloy produced by gravity casting is maximum when compared to LM6 aluminium alloy produced by squeeze casting and Al-flyash composite. 2. The LM6 aluminium alloy produced by squeeze casting method shows improved resistance to abrasive wear due to the increased hardness and densification of the material when compared to the base alloy produced by gravity casting method. 3. The Al-flyash 7.5wt% composite has revealed superior resistance to abrasive wear because of the harder constituents of flysh reinforcement and increased hardness due to squeeze casting. REFERENCES [1.] [2.] [3.] [4.] [5.] [6.] [7.] [8.] [9.] [10.] [11.] [12.] [13.] [14.] [15.] [16.] [17.] [18.] [19.] [20.] [21.] [22.] T.P.D. Rajan , R.M. Pillai, B.C. Pai, K.G. 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