DEVELOPMENT AND CHARACTERIZATION OF COPPER METAL MATRIX COMPOSITE BY POWDER METALLURGY TECHNIQUE

Abstract

Composite materials are combination of two or more materials with required properties. Two or more materials are combined to get desired properties like strength, stiffness and low weight. These composite materials have better properties than parent material. Thus present trend is to develop new materials to get desire properties. From literature study it has found that graphene is a good reinforcement material which increases strength. Copper is very regularly used in electrical applications. Thus area of interest of this paper is to develop copper graphene metal matrix composite by using powder metallurgy technique and study the basic characteristics of it.