Functional Materials and Advanced Manufacturing

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Promise of

Self-lubricating

Aluminum-Based

Composite Material

Neeraj Kumar Bhoi, HarpreetSingh,

and Saurabh Pratap

Indian Institute of Information Technology,

Design and Manufacturing

CONTENTS

4.1 Introduction....................................................................................................65

4.2 Historical Background and Need for the Development of

Al-SLMMCs...................................................................................................67

4.3 Wear Mechanism............................................................................................69

4.3.1 Wear Measureme