Experimental Studies on Polyester - Titanium Functionally Graded Materials

Abstract

Abstract In the present work an attempt has been made to fabricate Polyester based Titanium Functionally Graded Materials. Titanium particles are produced through conventional filing operation, by rotating Titanium rod of 50 mm diameter on lathe machine. Filing operation has been carried out at 650 rpm using a course file. The obtained powder was demagnetized to remove the foreign material related iron. Powders are subjected to sieving operation to get desired range of particle size i.e 300 microns. FGMs with 2.5 gm, 5 gm and 10 gm titanium by weight are fabricated through sedimentation technique. The quality of the FGMs is examined through liquid penetrant non-destructive testing. FGMs are tested and analyzed from density, hardness and optical microscopy point of view. Obtained results are compared and analyzed.