Anshul Badkul

Effect of Al–TiB master alloy addition on microstructure, wear and compressive deformation behaviour of aluminum alloys

Abstract Aluminum-10% TiB master alloy was added in various proportions in 7178 Al alloy in order to examine the effect of TiB on grain refinement, wear and compressive deformation of the later one. Microstructural characterization reveals that TiB particles act as grain refiners for primary base alloy and result in globular dendrites. It was observed that the wear resistance and strength of the alloy decreased when the master alloy addition increased beyond 20%, even though the dendrites become much finer and almost spherical in nature.

The Effect of Magnesium Addition on the Microstructure & Compressive Deformation Behavior of Al-Ca Alloy.

The Al-Ca-Mg alloys containing varying amount of Mg are used to study the effect of Mg addition on their microstructure and deformation behavior at varying strain rate (0.01/s, 0.1/s, 1/s). The material is prepared using stir casting technique. The yield stress, flow stress and elastic limit are measured from the true stress-strain graph. The strain rate sensitivity and strain-hardening exponent were also determined for each material at different strain rates. The elastic limit decreases with increases in strain rate. The strain rate sensitivity m is found to be negative at a flow strain and invariant to the strain rate. Its microstructure reveals that the microstructural characteristics changes with Mg addition. The variation of microstructural features primarily leading to the variation of deformation behavior.