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Designing with Aluminum Alloys

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Gain an understanding of fundamentals of designing with aluminum alloys like homogenization, solution treatment, aging treatment, precipitation, hardening, textures, toughness, fatigue, and corrosion.

In Handbook of Mechanical Alloy Design
edited by George E. Totten, Lin Xie, Kiyoshi Funatani

BRIEF CONTENTS

Part One – Design Principles

Basic Principles

Risk-Based Metallurgical Design

Part Two – Alloy Design

Designing with Aluminum Alloys

ALLOYING

  • Alloy Designations
    • Wrought Alloys
    • Casting Alloys

HEAT TREATMENT

  • Homogenization
  • Solution Treatment
  • Aging Treatment
    • Precipitation
    • Precipitate-Free Zones at Grain Boundaries

PROPERTIES OF ALUMINUM ALLOYS

  • Hardening (Strengthening) Mechanisms
    • Precipitation and Dispersion Hardening
    • Work Hardening
    • Textures
  • Toughness
  • Fatigue
  • Corrosion

WROUGHT ALUMINUM ALLOYS

  • Temper Designations
  • Non-Heat-Treatable Alloys
    • Pure Aluminum (1XXX Series)
    • Al–Mn and Al–Mn–Mg Alloys (3XXX Series)
    • Al–Mg Alloys (5XXX Series)
    • Miscellaneous Alloys
  • Heat-Treatable Alloys
    • Al–Cu Alloys (2XXX Series)
    • Al–Cu–Mg Alloys (2XXX Series)
    • Al–Mg–Si Alloys (6XXX Series)
    • Al–Zn–Mg(–Cu) Alloys (7XXX Series)
    • Al–Li Alloys
  • Powder Metallurgy Aluminum Alloys

CAST ALUMINUM ALLOYS

  • Temper Designations
  • Al–SI Alloys
  • Al–Cu Alloys
  • Al–Mg Alloys
  • Al–Zn–Mg Alloys 

Handbook of Mechanical Alloy Design

PREVIEW

Some interesting data from the book

  • Pure aluminum has very low strength and cannot be used for structural applications.
  • When alloyed with other elements, however, it gains strength by various strengthening mechanisms.
  • Aluminum can be alloyed with most metallic elements, but only some have enough solid solubility to be used as major alloying elements.
  • Of more importance are copper, magnesium, silicon, and zinc.
  • A considerable number of other elements have pronounced effect on improving the properties of aluminum alloys. These include chromium, manganese, and zirconium, which are used primarily to control grain structure.

Table 1 – Invariant Reactions and Maximum Solubilities in Binary Aluminum Alloys

 Table 4 – Precipitation Sequences in Selected Aluminum Alloys