Contriving and Assessment of Magnesium Alloy Composites Augmented with Boron Carbide VIA Liquid Metallurgy Route
J. Allen Jeffrey, S. Suresh Kumar, V. Anusha Roseline, A. Lazar Mary, D. Santhosh
Abstract
In modern engineering low-density composites plays a vital role of which magnesium alloys are very effective due to its high strength with better corrosion resistance and neat cast ability. In this work a micron sized Boron carbide ceramic (B 4 C) of about 100 microns is diffused as a reinforcement with AZ91 for preparing a magnesium metal matrix composite (MMMC) through stir casting route. A modified pit furnace setup is used for doing stir casting with varying volume fractions of 0％ and 3% of boron carbide for doing the composites. Furthermore mechanical and metallurgical properties like Tensile test is made through universal testing machine, Micro-hardness through Vickers hardness tester and Micro structure through Optical Microscopy is done for investigation.