Light-weight, high-strength metal matrix composites (MMCs) have been gaining prominence
in various industrial applications in which the materials are exposed to static and dynamic …

Light-weight high-strength composites (particularly with aluminum and magnesium base
alloys) have principal applications in a wide variety of fields ranging from automotive and …

Magnesium alloys, acknowledged as the environmentally-friendly engineering material of
the 21st century, are ideally suited to fulfill the requirements of lightweight manufacturing …

This work studied the interface morphology, microstructure behavior, and mechanical
properties of the fabricated trilayered Cu/Al8011/Al1060 composite. In this regard, the roll …

Squeeze casting (SC) is an advanced net manufacturing process with many advantages for
which the quality and properties of the manufactured parts depend strongly on the process …

Abstract A356-SiCp/A356 cladding composite materials were prepared by vacuum solid–
liquid casting. The interfacial bonding, microstructure, and mechanical properties of this …

A practical bimetallic casting consisting of aluminum matrix and cast iron inserts was
manufactured via high-pressure die casting (HPDC) process. Different surface treatment …

Vibration was adopted to enhance the interface bonding of Mg–Al bimetal prepared by the
lost foam compound casting (LFCC) technique. The Mg–Al bimetallic interface was …

The effect of surface morphologies of Al insert, including smooth surface (SS), straight
knurling (SK) and hatching knurling (HK) on interfacial microstructure, mechanical properties …

The present research concerns fabrication of Al-4.3 wt.% Cu metal syntactic foams using
expanded perlite particles (EPPs). A gas pressure infiltration technique was employed to …