New wear resistant Al based materials and their application in automotive industry

Abstract

Aluminium alloys have favourable physical and mechanical properties, and their recycling ability is good as well, so therefore they are increasingly used in the automotive industry. However, majority of these alloys do not have satisfactory tribological properties. Possible solutions for improvement of these properties are use of new composite materials and use of new technologies of aluminium alloys production. In this work, both solutions were considered together with presentation and analysis of results of previous investigations.