“…Ceramic nanoparticles, such as Al 2 O 3 , which have high modulus, hardness, and wear resistance, are reinforcements sometimes added to metal matrices to improve mechanical and tribological properties (Aruri et al, 2013;Baradeswaran and Perumal, 2013;Lu et al, 2013). Graphene has also been considered as a constituent in MMCs due to its favorable mechanical, electrical and thermal properties (Shin et al, 2015). The standard methods used to investigate the tensile and compressive behavior of metallic materials have also been used to investigate the mechanical properties of particulate-reinforced MMCs and MMNCs (Tabandeh Khorshid et al, 2010).…”