Development and Characterization of Aluminum 6061 - Zirconium Dioxide Reinforced Metal Matrix Composites by Stir Casting

The present work deals with the investigation is to discover the effect of reinforced particles on aluminum alloy Al 6061 properties which is fabricated or composited by using the stir casting technique [Liquid Metallurgy Process]. The present work is to fabricate Al 6061 -ZrO 2 composite and find out the mechanical properties like tensile, hardness and density of the prepared composite. All this fabrication process done by using stir casting in which the reinforcement varied from 0 -3 wt% in steps of 1 wt% ( i.e 0%, 1%, 2% and 3%). The result of this work is concluded that, there is a significant development in tensile and hardness values and there is decrease in density of composite. All these values are possible for increasing the weight percentage of reinforcement i.e zirconium dioxide particles in weight percentage of base metal.