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Liquid Metal Infiltration Processing of Metallic Composites: A Critical Review

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Metal matrix composites (MMC) are one of the advanced materials widely used for aerospace, automotive, defense, and general engineering applications. MMC can be tailored to have superior properties such as enhanced high-temperature performance, high specific strength and stiffness, increased wear resistance, better thermal and mechanical fatigue, and creep resistance than those of unreinforced alloys. To fabricate such composites with ideal properties, the processing technique has to ensure high volume fraction of reinforcement incorporation, uniform distribution of the reinforcement, and acceptable adhesion between the matrix and the reinforcing phase without unwanted interfacial reactions which degrades the mechanical properties. A number of processing techniques such as stir casting/vortex method, powder metallurgy, infiltration, casting etc. have been developed to synthesize MMC employing a variety of alloy and the reinforcement’s combinations. Among these, infiltration process is widely used for making MMC with high volume fraction of reinforcements and offers many more advantages compared to other conventional manufacturing processes. The present paper critically reviews the various infiltration techniques used for making the MMC, their process parameters, characteristics, and selected studies carried out worldwide and by authors on the development of metal ceramic composites by squeeze infiltration process.

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The authors are grateful to the CSIR for funding and the Director and Members of Materials Science and Technology Division, CSIR-NIIST, Trivandrum for their support and encouragement. We are grateful to Mr. Akhil M.G. for helping in drawings.

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  1. Materials Science and Technology Division, CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Trivandrum, India

    K. M. Sree Manu (Senior Research Fellow), L. Ajay Raag (Research Scholar), T. P. D. Rajan (Senior Scientist) & B. C. Pai (Emeritus Scientist)

  2. Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, New Delhi, India

    K. M. Sree Manu (Senior Research Fellow) & T. P. D. Rajan (Senior Scientist)

  3. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 119260, Singapore

    Manoj Gupta (Professor)

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Sree Manu, K.M., Ajay Raag, L., Rajan, T.P.D. et al. Liquid Metal Infiltration Processing of Metallic Composites: A Critical Review. Metall Mater Trans B 47, 2799–2819 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11663-016-0751-5

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