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Effect of Carbon Nanotube Orientation on Mechanical Properties and Thermal Expansion Coefficient of Carbon Nanotube-Reinforced Aluminum Matrix Composites

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Carbon nanotube-reinforced 2009Al (CNT/2009Al) composites with randomly oriented CNTs and aligned CNTs were fabricated by friction stir processing (FSP) and FSP-rolling, respectively. The CNT/2009Al composites with aligned CNTs showed much better tensile properties at room temperature and elevated temperature compared with those with the randomly oriented CNTs, which is mainly attributed to larger equivalent aspect ratio of the CNTs and avoidance of preferential fracture problems. However, much finer grain size was not beneficial to obtaining high strength above 473 K. The aligned CNTs resulted in tensile anisotropy, with the best tensile properties being achieved along the direction of CNT aligning. As the off-axis angle increased, the tensile properties were reduced due to the weakening of the load transfer ability. Furthermore, aligned CNTs resulted in much lower coefficient of thermal expansion compared with randomly oriented CNTs.

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This work was financially supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Nos. 2011CB932603 and 2012CB619600), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51331008).

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  1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, China

    Z. Y. Liu

  2. Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, 110016, China

    Z. Y. Liu, B. L. Xiao & Z. Y. Ma

  3. School of Mechanical Engineering, Liaoning Shihua University, Fushun, 113001, China

    W. G. Wang

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Liu, Z.Y., Xiao, B.L., Wang, W.G. et al. Effect of Carbon Nanotube Orientation on Mechanical Properties and Thermal Expansion Coefficient of Carbon Nanotube-Reinforced Aluminum Matrix Composites. Acta Metall. Sin. (Engl. Lett.) 27, 901–908 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40195-014-0136-1

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