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Impact of Cu-hBN On Thermal Stability and Electrical Resistivity of AA7050 by Powder Metallurgy Process
Impact of Cu-hBN On Thermal Stability and Electrical Resistivity of AA7050 by Powder Metallurgy Process
ABSTRACT
Synthesis of Aluminium alloy as a Matrix by the reinforcement material that is either a ceramic
with hBN as a reinforcement material composite or high stiffness metal based particulate or fiber.
has been carried out using Powder Metallurgy Aluminium is lightweight, non sparking, non magnetic.
technique. AA7050 and hBN which is in powder It possesses excellent cast ability, high damping
formed are mixed. After this, it is ball milled to capacity, good electromagnetic shielding, most easily
make it fined in grain size and fined powder is machinable of all structural metals and less energy
compacted at the pressure of 450MPa. This requirement in the production as compared to
compacted sample is finally sintered in muffle magnesium. During past decades, ceramic fiber,
furnace. The sintered sample of composite is whiskers and nano particles like SiC, Al2O3, CNTs,
further carried out to observe the hBN have been extensively used as reinforcement to
Microstructure of it using Optical Microscope. increase the strength and thermal stability of
The electrical conductivity test and thermal aluminium and its alloys. h-BN has excellent
gravimetric analysis (TGA) is performed to chemical and thermal stability, high corrosion
observe the change in conductivity and thermal resistance and lower dielectric constant. Due to its less
stability due to 5%wt of hBN and 5%wt of density, by adding it into Aluminium further weight
coated hBN as reinforcement in the Composite. reduction can be done which is required to be a good
structural material. Due to low elastic modulus
Keywords: Muffle furnace Sintering, Ball and poor corrosion resistance of the Magnesium
milling, Conductivity, Thermal stability, along with low thermal stability, currently Aluminium
Aluminium alloys-hBN composites alloys/ composites are more preferred as structural
members. Commercial aluminium has
approximately one third weight of iron, steel and
copper. The primary objective of the work is to make
I. INTRODUCTION
AA7050 MMC by powder metallurgy. In this study,
The need for lightweight, high strength materials Aa7050-5hBN%wt was compared with AA7050-
has been recognized since the invention of the 10hBN%wt and observed whether the thermal and
airplane. Due to scarcity of fuel is rising; the need electrical properties were improved.
of lighter materials is also rising to fulfill the
demand of lower fuel consuming automobiles. II.EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE
Aluminium is third most abundant element in earth
crust and has application in automobile, aerospace A.Processing
industries due to its light weight, high specific
strength, good machinability, and good cast ability. AA7050 and hBN powders were used to prepare
However aluminium has less melting point of samples with compositions AA7050/5%wt hBN and
around 6000 C which renders it useless for various AA7050/10%wt hBN by powder metallurgy
processing. The powder was quantified using
purposes despite its light weight advantage. The
volume of die and the mass of powder required is
inability of aluminium and alloys in providing calculated. The mixture is then carried for ball
thermal stability and electrical resistivity to a milling to reduce coarse and for uniform mixing.
structure has led to the development of metal The ball milling was done with ball to powder
matrix composites (MMCs). In this MMC, the ratio of 4:1. The ball drum was rotated at 250 rpm
thermal and electrical conductivity will be provided for 15 min using Balls made of Tungsten Carbide.
Ball milling parameters for all the samples were
same. This fined powder was then compacted by
UTM compacting machine at the pressure of Electrical conductivity in metal matrix composites is
450MPa to a size of billet 20mm diameter and 10 hindered mostly by porosity and poor sintering which
mm length. Zinc Stearate was used as a die will result in air pockets being formed inside the
lubricant in compaction. The lubricating medium sample resulting in lesser conductivity. Conductivity
used was ethanol. The compacted billet is then test was carried out with thin samples taken. A 6485
sintered in muffle furnace at the temperature of Picometer with a voltage range of 0.001V to 20V was
500°C for 1.5 hour and allowed to cool in furnace used for measuring the conductivity of the sample.The
for 30 min. Then this sample was taken out of the samples were connected to the positive and negative
furnace and cooled in atmosphere. The sintered terminal of the machine and respective conductivity
samples are shown in the Fig. 2 (a), (b) and (C) were measured for each sample.
.
Table 1: Chemical composition of AA7050 (mass D. Thermal conductivity
fraction, %)
Thermal conductivity of aluminium is as low as
________________________________________ ~600OC rendering it useless for many industrial
Zn Mg Cu Zr Fe Si Mn Cr Ti Al purposes and also for aeronautical applications.
5.93 2.23 2.16 0.11 0.068 0.019 <0.01 <0.01 0.02 Bal. However, h-BN being a reinforcement material with a
melting point of ~21000C will increase the thermal
stability of AA7050 in the sample. Thermo-
Gravimetric analysis is used for testing the thermal
stability of the sample with the following parameters:
A. Micro-structure
B. Electrical conductivity
V.ACKNWOLEDGEMENT
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