Effect of Sintering Temperature on Mechanical Properties and Microstructure of Powder Metallurgy Al-Niti-Sic Smart Composites

Smart materials are its composites are new kind of materials and mostly used in biomedical applications. The aim of present work is to study the effect of sintering temperature on mechanical properties and its microstructures. In this work, aluminium &NiTi,SiC is used as matrix and reinforcement materials. The fabricated composites are subjected to sintering process, the sintering temperature are maintained as 500oC, 550oC and 600oC for 60 minutes of time. The mechanical properties of the sintered smart composites are measured and reported. The density, porosity and Compression strength of the smart composites is measured as per the ASTM standard and it is found that addition of reinforcements increases the compression strength and same trend is observed while increasing the sintering temperature