Evaluation of wear properties of fly ash particulate and s-glass fiber reinforced al 4046 hybrid mmc

In recent years, Metal Matrix Composites (MMC’s) reinforced with Fly Ash particulates have attracted considerable interest due to their inherent good mechanical properties such as tensile strength, compression strength, hardness, wear resistance etc. This research work is concerned about the production of Fly Ash particulate, S-Glass fiber reinforced hybrid Aluminium 4046 Metal Matrix Composites (MMC’s) and further to investigate on wear properties of the processed composites. In this work, experimental study begins with mixing of Aluminium billets, Fly Ash particulates and S-Glass fibers using a stir casting technique at different weight fraction addition of Fly Ash (2wt%, 4wt%, 6wt%) and S-Glass (3wt%, 5wt%, 7wt%). The test specimens are prepared as per standard to conduct wear test. It has been observed that addition of Fly Ash particulate significantly improves wear properties as compared with that of unreinforced matrix.