DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF RECTANGULAR DIE FOR STIR CASTING

Stir casting is a liquid state method for fabrication of composite material in which a dispersed phase is mixed with molten matrix method by means of mechanical stirring it is the simplest, most cost effective and widely used method of liquid state fabrication. The stir casting setup is used to produce cylindrical and rectangular component samples, since there is commonly availability of only cylindrical die. Using this die, only the machining studies of turning and milling can be analysed. In case to study the machining characteristics of drilling, slotting it is needed to machine cylindrical sample into a rectangular or square component. This intake, increases the machining cost and production time. In this work, to overcome this problem a rectangular die is designed and it is fabricated for further preparation of rectangular samples.