Fabrication and Structural Analysis of Aluminium Alloy (Lm 16) Reinforced with Graphite and Granite Powder

Most pistons are made with die-cast or gravity-cast aluminum alloy. Cast pistons has good structural integrity, low cost, cast iron is brittle than the aluminum alloy and forged pistons are not for all applications. As each of them has its own disadvantages, to eliminate those disadvantages to the maximum extent we have chosen this project. Now a days, aluminum and its alloys have grate demand for the applications of automobile and aerospace, aluminum alloys are higher strength to weight ratio. We center around the combination and tribological investigations of aluminum LM16, graphite, and rock dust composites. For this situation, AL LM16 strengthened with graphite and rock dust by metal lattice composite in various rates, which results in increment of the elasticity, hardness and furthermore increment of the wear opposition of the base combination