The current study investigates the erosion wear behavior of Iron-Mud / Glass Fiber Reinforced Epoxy Composite. It highlights the possible utilization of iron mine wastes for developing a new class of wear resistant hybrid polymer composites. In the present research, the composites were fabricated through hand-layup process by reinforcing woven glass fibers in epoxy polymer filled with different weight proportions of iron-mud. It was found in general that wear resistance of the fabricated composites improved with the fillers addition. The experimental runs were performed according to the Box-Behnken design of experiment methodology and ANOVA tests were carried out to determine statistical significance and percentage contribution of the control factors. The response surface methodology (RSM) optimization revealed the minimum erosion value of 1.5049 mm³/kg at the optimal parametric combination of 20% iron mud content, 70 m/s erodent velocity, 12 g/min erodent discharge rate and 90° impinging angle. Further validation tests showed a close relationship with experimental and theoretical data.

The hybrid composites of aluminum metal matrix (AMM) are gaining technocrats attention looking into the ability to meet the demands of industrial and engineering structural requirements with its superior mechanical advantage such as high strength to weight ratio, effectively lower production cost as well as it accedes to traditional manufacturing methods. It was found that, the constituent reinforcing particles in the AMM are associated with certain control parameters which lead to drastic variation in composite's material properties. Many researchers designed and developed hybrid AMM composites by examining it with the variations of reinforcement particles. Current research aims to summarize the literature available based on fabrication routes of the hybrid AMM composites.