Renewed Furnace Design for Increasing Heating Rate in Aluminum Matrix Composite Production
Metin Önal1*, Mehmet Gavgalı2
1Elektrik ve Enerji Bölümü/Erciş Meslek Yüksekokulu, Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi , Van, Turkey
2MakineMühendisliği Bölümü/Mühendislik Fakültesi, Atatürk Üniversitesi , Erzurum, Turkey
* Corresponding author: monal@yyu.edu.tr
Presented at the Ist International Symposium on Innovative Approaches in Scientific Studies (ISAS 2018), Kemer-Antalya, Turkey, Apr 11, 2018
SETSCI Conference Proceedings, 2018, 2, Page (s): 189-189 , https://doi.org/
Published Date: 23 June 2018 |
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Abstract
Due to increase in heating rate of initial powders used for production of aluminium matrix composites in sintering furnace, both formation of undesired phases in content of the composite materials were prevented and production costs and duration were tried to be reduced. As method, heating volume was reduced to 2.38 L by making a chamber covered with wire resistance inside the sintering furnace which has an internal volume of 8 L in present. Thus, the heating rate determined as 5,8 oC/min. in previous furnace system has increased to three times by reaching 17,5 oC/min. with renewed furnace design. At low heating rate, observed brittle Al3Ti phase in microstructure of composites is no longer in microstructure with high heating rate.
Keywords - composite, heating rate, sintering furnace
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