Lightweight Materials: Understanding the Basics
Chapter 2: Aluminum Alloys
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Published:2012
Abstract
This chapter provides basic engineering information on aluminum alloys with an emphasis on their use in applications where weight is a significant design factor. It discusses the advantages and limitations of various types of aluminum along with their compositions, designations, and achievable strengths. It explains how some alloys are hardened through solution strengthening and cold working, while others are strengthened by precipitation hardening. It also describes production and fabrication processes such as melting, casting, rolling, forging, forming, extruding, heat treating, and joining, and includes a section on the causes and effects of corrosion and how they are typically controlled....
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Member Sign InAluminum Alloys, Lightweight Materials: Understanding the Basics, Edited By F.C. Campbell, ASM International, 2012, p 33–139, https://doi.org/10.31399/asm.tb.lmub.t53550033
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