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Lightweight composite materials have gained extensive importance over other categories of materials and alloys in industrial and structural applications due to their tailorability to design and engineering for specific requirements. This article addresses the mechanical and wear behaviour study of aluminium 6063 alloy reinforced with different weight fractions of silicon carbide for 'as-cast' and 'hot extruded' conditions. The composite systems were developed using the stir casting technique, and a set of samples was further subjected to hot extrusion at 500 degrees Celsius with an extrusion ratio of 9.0. Both cast and hot extruded samples were investigated for mechanical and adhesive wear studies. The addition of reinforcement improved the mechanical properties and wear resistance, and a significant improvement in mechanical and wear resistance was observed when the samples were subjected to secondary processing through hot extrusion.
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