Tribological Behavior of AA-6063 Cast Using In Situ Microwave Process by Taguchi Method and ANFIS Model

Abstract

Tribological behavior of AA-6063 casted by microwave casting process was investigated. In this work, sliding wear analysis has been done on in-situ cast developed through the novel technique. The in-situ cast of AA-6063 was developed using microwave irradiation. Sliding wear process parameters such as normal load, sliding velocity and sliding distance are optimized through Taguchi technique. L9 orthogonal array and signal-to-noise (S/N) analysis is used to obtain the optimumprocess parametersfor wear rate (WR) as the selected response.After optimization, a confirmatory test was performed using the analysis of variance (ANOVA).Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images, energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) images and frictional characterisationwere usedto study the mechanism of wear.Using the experimental data an adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) model has been developed and which was further tested using average wear rate.