; In this study, at first, the effects of different parameters on the bond strength between aluminum strips have been evaluated. Peeling test were used for the evaluation of bond strength between aluminum stripes and then for the investigation of fractured surfaces in the samples after peeling test, Optical Microscopy (OM) and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) were used. After that for the producing of Aluminum/Titanium carbide composite (Al/TiC), three various methods such as Accumulative Roll Bonding (ARB), cross roll accumulative roll bonding (CRARB) and Continual Annealing and Roll Bonding (CAR) were used. Microstructural variation in the produced composites during the various methods was investigated by Optical Microscopy (OM). In order to the evaluation of mechanical properties of the produced composites, uniaxial tensile test and hardness test were used on the samples. In order to the determination of failure mechanism, the fractured surfaces of samples were evaluated by scanning electron microscopy after the tensile test of the samples. The investigation of texture parameter was performed by the X-ray analysis of the samples. For the evaluation of the samples structural parameters such as subgrain size, microstrain and so on, MAUD software were used. The results show that with the increase of thickness reduction magnitude and the powder grain size, the bond strength between aluminum stripes increases. And also with the increase of the powder content between stripes, bond strength decreases. When the cycle’s number of process increases, the results show that the distribution of TiC particles in metal matrix is improved and the porosities value and the areas without any bond in the joint of metal layers and the joint of the matrix and the powder grain decrease. With the increase of the process cycles number, the tensile strength of the samples increases. The strength increase magnitude of the samples produced by CRARB method is more than the samples produced by ARB method because after 10 process cycles, the tensile strength of the samples produced by ARB and CRARB methods are respectively 2.1 and 1.52 times more than the annealed Aluminium used as the original raw material. The evaluation of the samples’ fractured surfaces shows that the fractured surface of the samples is like shear ductile type. The role of shear stress in the failure of the samples produced by CAR method is less and this role is more in the samples produced by ARB and CRARB methods. And also the texture investigation shows that for the samples produced by CAR method, dominant texture is (111) while for the samples produced by ARB, dominant textures are (200) and (220) and for the samples produced by CRARB method, dominant textures are (200), (220) and (311). The grain sizes in the ARB-processed and CRARB-processed composites after 10 process cycles obtained by MAUD software are equal to 190 nm and 147 nm. Keywords : Metal matrix composite (MMC), Cold roll bonding, Accumulative roll bonding (ARB), Continual annealing and roll bonding (CAR), Bond strength, Microstructure, Mechanical properties, Fractography, texture parameter, electrical resistance, Reitveld method.
