Meet the editor

Kavian Omar Cooke is a Lecturer at the University of Bradford, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom and former Director of the Mechanical Engineering program at the University of Technology, Jamaica. He is a Chartered Engineer, a member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), a member of the Caribbean Academy of Science and former Vice President of the Jamaica Institution of Engineers (JIE). He obtained his PhD from the

University of Calgary in Materials Engineering, a B. Eng. with honors and an MPhil from the University of Technology in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA from Patten University in Management. His research has focused on surface and interface engineering and he has authored three books and numerous journal articles and conference proceedings.

Contents

**Section 1**

*by Kavian Omar Cooke*

and Bayer Red Muds

*by David Weiss*

**Section 2**

*and Ch. Srinivasa Rakesh*

*by Subramaniam Magibalan*

*by Yingyi Zhang, Yuanhong Qi and Jiaxin Li*

Aluminium and Its Interlinking Properties *by K. Velmanirajan and K. Anuradha*

Composites and Alloys Based on the Al-Ce System

Novel Applications of Aluminium Metal Matrix Composites *by Francis Nturanabo, Leonard Masu and John Baptist Kirabira*

**Preface III**

Types and Properties of Aluminium Alloys and Composites **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 15**

**Chapter 3 33**

**Chapter 4 57**

**Chapter 5 71**

Processing, Characterisation and Testing **95**

**Chapter 6 97**

**Chapter 7 119**

Effect of Grain Size on Superplastic Deformation of Metallic Materials

*by Allavikutty Raja, Rengaswamy Jayaganthan, Abhishek Tiwari* 

Wear Behaviour of Aluminium Alloy 8011 with 4% Fly Ash

Composites by Using Sensitivity Analysis

Introductory Chapter: Structural Aluminum Alloys and Composites

Aluminum Mineral Processing and Metallurgy: Iron-Rich Bauxite
