Improvement in physical and mechanical properties of aluminum/zircon composites fabricated by powder metallurgy method

Materials and Design

Volumn 32, Issue 8-9, 2011, Pages 4417-4423

  Abdizadeh, Hossein ^a   Ashuri, Maziar ^b   Moghadam, Pooyan Tavakoli ^a   Nouribahadory, Arshia ^c   Baharvandi, Hamid Reza ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^d MALEK ASHTAR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

A. Metal matrix composites; C. Powder metallurgy; C. Sintering

Indexed keywords

ABRASIVE WEAR BEHAVIOR; C. POWDER METALLURGY; C. SINTERING; COMPRESSION STRENGTH; HIGH TEMPERATURE; ISOSTATIC PRESSING; MECHANICAL TESTING METHODS; METAL MATRIX COMPOSITES; PHYSICAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; TWO-TEMPERATURE;

ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM POWDER METALLURGY; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; HARDNESS; MECHANICAL TESTING; METALLURGY; POWDER METALS; SINTERING; ZIRCON;

METALLIC MATRIX COMPOSITES;

EID: 79957868295     PISSN: 02641275     EISSN: 18734197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2011.03.071     Document Type: Article

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