Fabrication of multilayered aluminum/zinc composite reinforced with nanoparticle silicon carbide by accumulative roll bonding (ARB) process and investigation of mechanical and microstractural properties

In this paper reinforced multilayered Al/Zn composite with silicon carbide nano particles was produced by accumulative roll bonding (ARB) process for the first time; and investigated mechanical property and microstractural evolutions. In this process after manufacturing of sandwich sample (zero pass), applied about 50% thickness reduction in per passes which is equivalent to 0.8 von-misess plastic strain. This process was donning up to 8 cycles and results to production of an aluminum metal matrix composite with uniform distribution of zinc fragments and silicon carbide nano particles in matrix with 257 MPa tensile strength.