www.tjprc.org editor@tjprc.org SLURRY EROSIVE WEAR BEHAVIOR OF AA 6063/TIC PARTICLES IN SITU COMPOSITES G. NAVEEN KUMAR 1 , V. MAHIDHAR REDDY 2 , M. SUNIL KUMAR 3 , K. HEMACHANDRA REDDY 4 & Y. V. MOHANA REDDY 5 1 Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Aeronautical Engineering, Dundigal, Hyderabad, Telangana, India 2, 3 Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Aeronautical Engineering, Dundigal, Hyderabad, Telangana, India 4 Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Anantapur, Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, India 5 Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, G Pulla Reddy Engineering College, Nandyal Road, Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh, India ABSTRACT The In-situ composite of metal matrix AA6063-xTiC (x = 0 wt. %, 3wt. %, 6 wt. %, 9 wt. %) were mixed with particulates of Tic, were synthesized by the reaction of K 2 TiF 6 and graphite with aluminum melt at 1000°C. These composites were heat treated differently to form various sets like solution zed and solution zed-aged, where they were compared with as-cast composites for erosive wear performance by testing pot type slurry-erosive wear device, respectively. This study showed an increase in wear resistance for slurry erosion upon solution zed-aged heat treatment and with a rise of Tic particulates. KEYWORDS: Metal Matrix, Wear and Slurry Erosion Received: May 05, 2017; Accepted: May 25, 2017; Published: Jun 05, 2017; Paper Id.: IJMPERDJUN201724 INTRODUCTION The class of innovative engineering materials of metal matrix composites (MMCs) is with a vast variety of wear, structural and thermal managerial applications. The metal-matrix composites can provide high-temperature working limits than their base metal corresponding element, and it can be tailored to give stiffness, thermal conductivity, enhanced strength, abrasion resistance, dimensional stability or creep resistance [1, 2].MMCs has been focused by record of the commercial work on aluminum as the metal matrix such as ventral fins, cylinder liners, helicopter blades and lower drag brace landing gears in modern fighter planes[3].The light weight and useful mechanical properties combination has ended aluminum alloys very popular; aluminum also makes these properties well-matched for use as a metal matrix. Though, aluminum itself shows deprived tribological properties [4]. Therefore, the importance in the study is the tribological behavior of aluminum based materials is becoming increasing. By continuous exposure to environment, these materials get degraded. Due to the continuous exposure to such environment, the body erosion in automotive applications wear of these materials plays a major role [5]. Aluminum melting point is more than enough to gratify many tender requirements, still little enough to reduce composite processing reasonably suitable. B 4 C, TiB 2 , Al 2 O 3 , Sic, Tic, WC, and graphite variety of reinforcing Original Article International Journal of Mechanical and Production Engineering Research and Development (IJMPERD) ISSN (P): 2249-6890; ISSN (E): 2249-8001 Vol. 7, Issue 3, Jun 2017, 223-232 © TJPRC Pvt. Ltd.