Compaction of fly ash-aluminum alloy composites and evaluation of their mechanical and acoustic properties

Advanced Powder Technology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 548-553

  Hrairi, Meftah ^a   Ahmed, Mirghani ^a   Nimir, Yassin ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Aluminum alloy; Elastic properties; Fly ash; Green density; Powder compaction; Ultrasonic velocity

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM ALLOY MATRICES; COMPACTING PRESSURE; ELASTIC PROPERTIES; GREEN COMPACTS; GREEN DENSITIES; GREEN DENSITY; LIGHTWEIGHT COMPOSITES; METAL MATRIX COMPOSITES; NON-DESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION METHODS; POWDER COMPACTION; PRESSING CONDITIONS; ULTRASONIC METHODS; WEIGHT FRACTIONS; WEIGHT PERCENT;

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM ALLOYS; ALUMINUM METALLURGY; COMPACTION; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; FLY ASH; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; POWDER METALS; ULTRASONIC VELOCITY; ULTRASONIC VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONICS;

METALLIC MATRIX COMPOSITES;

EID: 70449507690     PISSN: 09218831     EISSN: 15685527     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apt.2009.07.006     Document Type: Article

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