Fatigue Improvement of Cast Aluminum Composites via Experimental and ANSYS Analysis
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Abstract
In this work, ANSYS Workbench finite element analysis and experimental testing were employed to investigate how adding ceramic reinforcements-silicon carbide (SiC) and zirconium oxide (ZrO₂)-Specifically enhance fatigue performance in cast aluminum matrix composites.Specimens containing 5% and 10% weight fractions of each reinforcement, prepared using sand casting, were then tested according to the ASTM A370-11 and ASTM E8/E8M standards to assess their mechanical behavior and failure characteristics.The results reveal that adding 5% SiC increases fatigue resistance, with the highest fatigue limit of any studied sample.Conversely, a 10% ZrO₂ content decreases fatigue performance because of internal stress concentrations and particle agglomeration.With a stress ratio of R = -1 and based on the stress-life (S-N) approach, the numerical simulations produced results highly consistent with experimental data, varying from 5.2% to 8.3%.According to the study's findings, the fatigue behavior of aluminum composites is influenced by the type and concentration of reinforcing particles.SiC at 5% provides the best fatigue enhancement, whereas higher percentages-especially ZrO₂-may compromise mechanical integrity.Its usefulness in the design and analysis of composite materials is supported.The finite element methods demonstrated the ability to forecast fatigue life.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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