Aluminium Metal Matrix Composite Reinforced With Carbon Nanotubes / Graphene – A Review

Aluminium Metal Matrix Composite Reinforced With Carbon Nanotubes / Graphene – A Review

Rahul Chavan, Sujit Nande, Saurabh Nikam, Prajwal Kadam, Pranav Mule

Departmentof Mechanical Engineering, Savitribai Phule Pune University, India.

Guide Name: Prof. Z.K. Shaikh.

Abstract : This paper includes a comprehensive review of composites filed with aluminium metal matrix. The literature study includes all aspects of the preparation methods, mechanical properties, tribological properties, erosion properties and thermal properties of corrosion and cavitation. Recent years, owing to the huge demand in various industrial applications, aluminium graphene/CNT nano-composites was gaining greater momentum. The Fabrication of metal matrix composites, strengthening mechanisms in metal matrix composites, mechanical behavior of all composites and evaluation of mechanical properties were discussed below in detail. In fact these newly developed materials have high strength, high stiffness and high hardness, whereas these materials are difficult to be machined by conventional machining processes.

Keywords: Aluminium, MMC, Carbon Nanotubes, Graphene, Fabrication.