A Comprehensive Evaluation of Wear Behaviour of Aluminium Matrix Composites with Various Metallic and Non-Metallic Particulates as Reinforcement

Wear, which is one of the most important characteristic leads to a costly damage in machine parts, unless it is reduced. All the engineering components are naturally imply with wear. The composites with inclusion of various types of particulate reinforcements of both metallic and non-metallic in Aluminium base metals or alloys are denoted as Aluminium Metal Matrix Composites or simply called as AMMCs. These have tremendous attributes that they can be tailor made with respect to their achievable properties according to the required applications in wide and variety range of applications. Most of the applications in mechanical, industrial, automobile, aerospace and naval are associated with wear properties where dry sliding occurs. In the current paper, a comprehensive attempt was made for attaining overview about the connection among the wear parameter like rate of wear, coefficient of friction and, wear volume loss which are the dependants of the factors like type, size and volume of particulates, load, rate of sliding, time of sliding, and sliding distance with respect to various types of AMMCs. A highlighted attempt was made for the compilation of various compositions of AMMCs and the probable methods of manufacturing along with input and output parameters.