Experimental investigation on mechanical properties of carbon fiber reinforced aluminum metal matrix composite

Many research works were carried out in the field of material science; these researches show that the composite materials are better than the conventional materials due to their enhanced mechanical properties. The recent manufacturing trends, aluminium based composite materials are popular in most of the application like automotive, aircraft, military, and others. The carbon fiber reinforced aluminum metal matrix composites are highly potential materials for aerospace and electronic industries. In the present work, an open die casting method is used to fabricate the AA 6061 based composite material. The AA
6061 is used as a base metal, and the uncoated continuous long spool-type pitch-based carbon fibers are used as reinforcement. The carbon fibers were placed in the format with two-levels of weight percentage 5% and 10%; the carbon fibers were reinforced with a certain distance with AA6061 aluminium alloy; the composite is fabricated with the help of an electric furnace. The composite’s mechanical propties were studied by the various mechanical tests and they were compared with the base alloy of AA 6061. The morphological characteristic was studied by the SEM images, which exhibit the uniform distribution of carbon fibers in the composite material.