Tensile Behavior of Aluminium2014 Reinforced with Boron Carbide and Copper Coated Short Basalt Fiber Based Hybrid Composites

Abstract

In this research work an effort has been made to study the tensile behavior of boron carbide and copper coated short basalt fiber reinforced with Al2014 based hybrid composites are prepared by stir casting technique. To avoid the interfacial reactions between basalt fiber and matrix Al2014 alloy the fibers are coated with copper using copper sulphate solution by electroless deposition method.The coated fiber was observed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). It has been clearly revealed the uniform deposition of copper on the surface of fiber and tensile behavior of Hybrid composites was increased with increase in the wt% of reinforcements. At 6% boron carbide and 8% copper coated basalt fiber shows maximum tensile property.

Mechanical and tribological characteristics of boron carbide reinforcement of AA6061 matrix composite

“…For non-metallic matrix, the effectiveness of the addition of 30 wt% of boron carbide (B 4 C) particles into fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) was validated by experiments and FEM [17]. Jayaram et al [18] noted that the tensile behaviour of hybrid composites is increased by using a certain amount wt% of reinforcements. To obtain a maximum tensile property of composite made of Al2014 is recommended to use 6% boron carbide and 8% coppercoated basalt fibre.…”