Metal Matrix Composites: Materials, Manufacturing and Engineering

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 216
• Series: Advanced Composites; 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Metal Matrix Composites (MMC's) have found an increased use in various industries due to their special mechanical and physical properties. They are a composite material with at least two constituent parts, one being a metal and are made by dispersing a reinforcing material into a metal matrix.  The markets are: telecommunications, automotive, power semiconductor, opto-electronics, military and aerospace, heavy transportation, space systems and satellites, medical, and industrial lighting. Applications within these markets include microwave, micro-electronic packaging, laser diode, HB-LED’s, and advanced radar.

• Emerging, though very rapidly growing field: very important for current research.
• Lately among the first three most-cited topics in the Materials-Sciences.
• High potential materials due to special and unique mechanical and physical properties.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Contents
List of contributing authors
1 Metal matrix composites for thermal management
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Composite materials for thermal management
1.2.1 Liquid infiltration
1.2.2 Powder metallurgy
1.3 Design and modeling of metal matrix composites for electronics
1.3.1 Volume fraction of ceramic phase
1.3.2 Thermal conductivity
1.3.3 Coefficient of thermal expansion
1.4 Families of advanced metal matrix composite materials for electronics
1.4.1 SiC-based composites
1.4.2 Carbon-based composites
1.4.3 Diamond-based composites
1.5 The future of metal matrix composites in electronics
References
2 Recent research and developments on the mechanical behavior of CNT-reinforced metal matrix composites
2.1 Introduction
2.2 CNT-Al composites
2.3 CNT-Co composites
2.4 CNT-Cu composites
2.5 CNT-Fe composites
2.6 CNT-Mg composites
2.7 CNT-Ni composites
2.8 CNT-Ti composites
2.9 Concluding remarks
References
3 Novel preparation and mechanical properties of in situ synthesized (TiB+La2O3)/TiNbTaZr composites
3.1 Introduction
3.1.1 The application of rare earth elements in β titanium alloys
3.1.2 The influence of rare earth elements in titanium alloys
3.1.3 Biosafety of rare earth elements
3.2 Materials preparation and experimental procedures
3.2.1 Materials preparation
3.2.2 Experimental procedures
3.3 Results and discussions
3.3.1 Phase analysis
3.3.2 Thermodynamic analysis
3.3.3 Microstructure analysis
3.3.4 Microstructure of reinforcements
3.3.5 Analysis of the solidification mechanism
3.3.6 Superelasticity
3.3.7 In situ characterization of microstructure
3.3.8 Mechanical properties
3.4 Conclusions
References
4 Microstructure formation of particle-reinforced metal matrix composite coatings produced by thermal spraying
4.1 Particle-reinforced MMC coatings formed ex situ by thermal spraying of powder mixtures and composite particles
4.2 MMC coatings with reinforcing particles formed in situ during thermal spraying
4.3 Design of particle-reinforced MMC coatings using flexible variation of spraying parameters in computer-controlled detonation spraying
4.4 Post-spray treatment of MMC coatings
References
5 Fabrication of Al-metal matrix composites by liquid stirring technique
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Fabrication of Aluminium metal matrix composites
5.2.1 Fabrication of the stirring arrangement
5.2.2 Mold-making and preparation of the mold cavity
5.2.3 Estimation of raw materials for Al/5, 10, 15 wt.% reinforced MMC casting
5.2.4 Experimental procedure
5.3 Physical, chemical and mechanical properties of stir cast samples
5.3.1 Physical property of stir cast samples
5.3.2 Mechanical properties of stir cast samples
5.3.3 Analysis of the reinforced weight fraction
5.3.4 Microstructural characterization
5.4 Optimization of stir casting parameters for Al/15 wt.% SiC-MMC
5.4.1 S/N Ratio for micro-hardness of prepared Al/15 wt.% SiC-MMC
5.4.2 ANOVA for micro hardness of prepared Al/15 wt.% SiC-MMC
5.4.3 Mathematical model for micro hardness of prepared Al/15 wt.% SiC-MMC
5.4.4 S/N Ratio for tensile strength of prepared Al/15 wt.% SiC-MMC
5.4.5 ANOVA for tensile strength of prepared Al/15 wt.% SiC-MMC
5.4.6 Mathematical model for tensile strength of prepared Al/15 wt.% SiC-MMC
5.5 Conclusion
References
6 Material removal processes for metal matrix composites
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Conventional machining processes
6.2.1 Turning of PMMCs
6.2.2 Milling of PMMCs
6.2.3 Drilling of PMMCs
6.3 Unconventional machining of MMCs
6.3.1 Electrochemical machining of PMMCs
6.3.2 Electric discharge machining of PMMCs
6.3.3 Ultrasonic machining of PMMCs
6.4 Conclusion
References
7 An investigation into machining Al/SiC metal matrix composites
7.1 Milling of metal matrix composites
7.1.1 Introduction
7.1.2 Experimental procedure
7.1.3 Results and discussion
7.2 Summary
7.3 Drilling of metal matrix composites
7.3.1 Introduction
7.3.2 Experimental setup and procedure
7.3.3 Results and discussion
7.3.4 Summary
References
8 Application of response surface method and desirability function for the optimization of machining parameters of hybrid metal matrix (Al/SiC/Al2O3) composites
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Materials and methods
8.2.1 Fabrication of hybrid metal matrix composites
8.2.2 Machining experiment
8.3 Modeling and optimization
8.3.1 Modeling of machining parameters using the response surface method
8.3.2 Optimization of machining parameters using the desirability function approach (DFA)
8.4 Results and discussion
8.5 Conclusions
References
Index