A STUDY ON 3-BODY ABRASIVE WEAR BEHAVIOUR OF ALUMINIUM

Metals and alloys have found their many role in many applications like structural and corrosive, environment. The alloys/composites having high strength to low weight ratio have gained attention of many researchers. In the above work, Aluminium metal matrix composite was prepared by die casting route, by varying the weight % of reinforcement. Made composite specimens are subjected to 3-body abrasive testing by varying applied load and time, the epoxy particles of 900 grit size were used as abrasive particles. It was observed that with increase of weight of wear resistance of composite was also increasing and on comparison it was found reinforced composite gives good wear resistance to the base alloy.