IJSRST173726 | Received : 14 Sep 2017 | Accepted : 29 Sep 2017 | September-October-2017 [(3) 7: 363-369] © 2017 IJSRST | Volume 3 | Issue 7 | Print ISSN: 2395-6011 | Online ISSN: 2395-602X Themed Section: Science and Technology 363 Study of Wear Properties of SiC Particulate And E-Glass Fiber Reinforced Al 3003 Hybrid Metal Matrix Composites 1 Lakshmi Narayana K S, 2 Dr. H K Shivanand 1 PhD Scholar, VTU-RRC, Belagavi, Karnataka, India 2 Associate Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, UVCE, Bangalore, Karnataka, India ABSTRACT Composite materials play a vital role at the present modern industrial sectors. Metal matrix composites are light weighted, high strength, extremely hard materials which are useful in various industrial areas like aerospace, automotive, machine building due to their advantageous properties like light weight, flexibility, hardness, simplicity and easy applicability and so on. At the centre of research and growth of these sectors this paper emphasizes the production of metal-matrix Al-SiC & E-Glass composites using the stir-casting method with varying percentile compositions of SiC & E-Glass with aluminium. In the present investigation a study on wear behavior of Aluminium metal matrix composite reinforced with SiC and E-Glass (produced by stir casting process) has been carried out. In this study wear performance is carried out by varying the percentage of reinforcements in the matrix. All experiments were conducted under room temperature condition. To assess the wear characteristics of aluminium alloy 3003 with SiC & E-Glass a computerized pin-on-disc machine was used. The specimen was studied under scanning electron microscope to get an idea about the distribution of pattern of the reinforcement in the matrix alloy and effect of these reinforcements on the wear behavior of the composites. Dispersion of reinforcements in the aluminium matrix improves the wear behavior of the composites. Keywords: E-Glass Fiber, Silicon Carbide, Aluminium 3003 Alloy, Stir Casting. I. INTRODUCTION Metal Matrix composites (MMCs) are made of a continuous metallic matrix and one or more discontinuous reinforcing phases. The reinforcing phase may be in the form of fibers, whiskers or particles. In particular, Particle-reinforced aluminium alloys have the potential to be used in the wide range of engineering applications due to their higher stiffness and strength when compared with conventional aluminum alloys. For these composite materials, Silicon Carbide (SiC), a commercially pure material, has become the main type of reinforcement. Most of the research work carried out on aluminium based composite materials involved in silicon carbide as its reinforcing material. Hence forth it is essential to look for the possibilities of fabricating aluminium based composite materials using alternative materials such as E-Glass. Metal matrix composites are produced economically by stir casting techniques, with substantial increase in the stiffness, hardness and strength to weight ratio of cast MMCs; but however there is a reduction in ductility. It has been observed that some improvements in strength and ductility can be achieved with the application of plastic forming processes i.e. forging of the cast composites. The forged MMCs in general have better mechanical properties compared to cast MMCs, such as improved density, hardness and tensile strength etc. The forging process also avoids the use of secondary operation like machining. II. METHODS AND MATERIAL EXPERIMENTATION A. MATERIALS Reinforcement compositions are selected based on the previous work done by many researchers. In many literatures authors have mentioned the reinforcement percentage should be less than 10% for E-Glass and 2%