The advantage of composite materials over non-alloy/virgin metals has been on the front burner in the engineering materials sphere. To this ends, various reinforcement materials are constantly been mixed with metal matrix to form new composite materials. Ca2SiO3 is a ceramic material which finds application in medicine, heat and noise insulation, acid remediation, cement production etc. since it possesses qualities needed for the formation of composites, and is largely not researched on, this study aimed to characterize the mechanical properties of the AA 6061 - Ca2SiO3 composite for different composition of percentage mix, and to establish a model that would predict the UTS for known values of percentage mix and load. Result of the study shows that 6% Ca2SiO3 – 94% AA 6061 and 24% Ca2SiO3 – 76% AA 6061 possessed the highest modulus of elasticity and are stiffer while 2% Ca2SiO3 – 98% AA 6061 mix had the lowest modulus of elasticity, and is more ductile than other composition mix. Also, it was observed that addition of Ca2SiO3 to AA 6061 T4 greatly improves its mechanical properties and96.43% of the variations in stress experienced by various percentage composition of the composite mix can be explained by the developed model.
Characterization, Composite, Modelling, Aluminium, Calcium Silicate
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