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    EXPERIMENTAL OPTIMIZATION OF HYBRID REINFORCEMENT OF BORON CARBIDE AND ZIRCONIUM DIOXIDE IN AL7075 USING ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION (2020)


    R. Vijaya Prakash, Dr. V. Chittarangan Das
    JCR. 2020: 3351-3358

    Abstract

    Aluminium Metal Matrix Composites (AMC) are used in an application like automobiles and aircraft industries. Some researches involved in using the Hybrid reinforcements to improve the characteristic of AMC. In this research, Boron Carbide (B4C) and Zirconium dioxide (ZiO2) are used as the reinforcements in Al7075 using Stir casting method and Ant colony technique is used for optimization. The input parameters such as wt%, stirrer speed, stirrer time and Temperature are considered for optimization. Taguchi method is used for optimize the input parameters to improve the characteristics such as Ultimate Tensile Strength (UTS) and micro hardness. The analysis shows that wt% is the important parameter that affects the characteristics such as UTS and micro hardness of the material. The Ant Colony optimisation shows that 1.95 wt% of B4C and ZiO2, stirrer speed 495 RPM, 24 min stirring time, processing temperature (PT) of 817�C provides the higher UTS of 210 MPa and micro hardness of 197.57.

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    Volume & Issue

    Volume 7 Issue-11

    Keywords

    Aluminium Metal Matrix Composites, Ant colony technique, Boron Carbide, Stir casting method and Ultimate Tensile Strength.