College of Engineering

Architecture is not a stone; It’s the prior thought behind design process; which could got from Forms;sketches or images and even verbally; and all summarizes through the concepts of Type and Typology in Architecture by its time transformations; Typology is architecture itself, it’s represent era imprint and it’s classifying Architectural movements, including its philosophical and theoretical ideas and even the applied. That’s made the Theory of Type in architecture deals with the thoughts and stone.

In this research, ceramic alumina particles are used as an additive to the aluminum  metal in order to fabricate new composite and to study the alumina effect on the  improvement of properties and characterizing the new properties of the composites taking into  consideration the main aluminum drawback property of low wear  resistance. In the presented thesis, micro and nano alumina particles have been used  as a reinforcement for the aluminum matrix by using powder metallurgy technique  and with three different percentages of alumina (5, 10 and 15wt.%).