Study of Mechanical Properties for the Aluminum Bronze Matrix Composites of Hot Pressing

The aluminum bronze matrix alumina composites using hot press and resin infiltration were investigated to study their porosities, hardness, bending strengths, and microstructures. The experiment results show that the hardness of the sintered composites with the decrease of porosity increases. The composites without and with resin infiltration have about HRF 42-61 of about 34-40% of porosity and about HRF 62-83 of about 30-36% of porosity, respectively. Besides, the alumina composites contain a more amount of iron and nickel powders would cause a lower bending strength due to forming some weaker bonding among the iron, nickel, copper, aluminum under this hot pressing of shorter time.

• Shenq Yih Luo
• Chung Hsien Lu

• Aluminum bronze matrix composite
• bending strength
• hot pressing
• porosity.

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