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Introduction The desirable properties of weight savings better corrosion resistance and mechanical properties led aluminum and its composites AMC to be used primarily in the field of aerospace automobiles defense research sports and structural applications Rajmohan et al 1 Mordyuk et al 2 Beygi et al 3 The developments in the area of functionally graded material uplifted research in the field of hybrid metal matrix composites MMCs and low cost alloyed aluminum metal as a matrix for altering and obtaining desirable properties in the field of composites Saravanan et al 4 Alaneme et al 5 Hipke et al 6 Liu et al 7 Applications of MMCs increased due to the obtained tailored properties by adding desirable reinforcements in the form of ceramics including graphite mica silica zircon alumina and silicon carbide Silica reinforced aluminum composites are used for a variety of applications including manufacturing of pistons calipers and rotors due to an excellent combination of high strength and high wear resistance properties A lot of research work has been carried out on aluminum based composite materials reinforced with silica Surappa 8 at varying volume fractions for altering mechanical physical thermal and tribological properties
