Journal of Powder Metallurgy & Mining
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Research Article

Characterization of Al Matrix SiC Reinforced Sub-Micron Composites Produced by Mechanical Alloying

¹Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Erciyes University, Turkey

²Department of Mechanical Engineering, Erciyes University, Turkey

*Corresponding Author:

Dagasan E
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Erciyes University, Engineering Faculty
38039 Kayseri, Turkey
Tel: 90 352 207 66 66
E-mail: edagasan@erciyes.edu.tr

Received Date: March 17, 2017; Accepted Date: March 28, 2017; Published Date: April 05, 2017

Citation: Dagasan E, Gercekcioglu E, Unalan S (2017) Characterization of Al Matrix SiC Reinforced Sub-Micron Composites Produced by Mechanical Alloying. J Powder Metall Min 6: 164. doi:10.4172/2168-9806.1000164

Copyright: © 2017 Dagasan E, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

In this study, properties of the aluminum matrix silicon carbide reinforced sub-micron composite powders produced by mechanical alloying were investigated. High purity Al and SiC powders were used as initial powders. To investigate the effect of SiC quantity 5, 10, 15 and 20% weight ratio of SiC particles were added to the aluminum matrix. Milling operations were conducted at 250 rpm under high purity argon atmosphere for 120 h by planetary type ball mill. Milling balls and vial were made of tungsten carbide. The milling system stopped for by various time intervals and samples were taken from the powder mixture. After milling operations taken samples were analyzed by SEM, XRD and BET surface area and porosity measurement systems.

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