Investigation of Electrical Behavior of Al6061+B4C/GNP Hybrid Composite

Abstract

It is aimed to investigate the electrical behavior of the aluminum hybrid composite produced by the vortex method with different additive ratios in this study. For this purpose, electrical measurements were made on hybrid composite samples, and electrical resistance and conductivity values were calculated. According to the obtained data, it was observed that while the electrical resistances decreased, the electrical conductivity values increased in the hybrid structures formed with B4C and nanographene plate (GNP) doped into the Al6061 alloy. The highest electrical conductivity was obtained from 10% B4C+1.5% GNP added hybrid composite. Compared to the pure Al6061 undoped sample, a conductivity increase of approximately 273% was achieved. It has been determined that this value is also the same as the conductivity value of pure copper. Furthermore, it has been evaluated that the increase in conductivity is caused by the excellent physical properties of carbon-based graphene in the hybrid composite structure, as well as very good conductivity.