Study on mechanical properties of environment friendly Aluminium E-waste Composite with Fly ash and E-glass fiber. (2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Patel, Siddharth; Rana, R.S.; Singh, Swadesh Kumar
• Is Part Of: Materials today. Volume 4:Number 2(2017)Part A
• Page Start: 3441
• Page End: 3450
• Publication Date: 2017
• Subjects: Environmental friendly -- E-waste -- Printed circuit board -- AL6061 -- E-glass fiber -- Fly ash -- Stir casting process -- Mechanical properties -- Microstructure analysis; Materials science -- Congresses -- Periodicals; 620.1
• DOI: 10.1016/j.matpr.2017.02.233
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2214-7853

Abstract

Abstract: In the present scenario e- waste is an important subject to solve and to utilise in a better way for the betterment of the human society. E-waste mainly contains many useful materials such as Aluminium, copper, Lead, Gold, etc. these materials are recyclable and can be utilised in making a better material composite by using a suitable reinforcement. Here study focused on the e-waste like printed circuit boards which contains aluminium in its heat sinks. These heat sinks are made up of Aluminium alloy specially from AL6061 and AL6063. Our study basically focused on AL6061 and these AL6061 is taken as matrix material and reinforcement as fly ash and e-glass fiber. Here fly ash is varied with respect to weight percentage and e-glass fiber is kept constant with some weight%. After that the sample composite was prepared by the stir casting method. Four different samples were taken (0, 3, 6, 9% fly ash) and it was found that the tensile, compressive, yield strength increases with increasing the fly ash%. Hardness increases and toughness decreases by increasing the fly ash% with an exception in sample 3 for the hardness.