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Materials Sciences and Applications, 2015, 6, 86-94 Published Online January 2015 in SciRes. /journal/msa /10.4236/msa.2015.61011 Characterization of the A6060 Al Alloy Mainly by Using the Micro-Hardness Vickers Test in Order to Optimize the Industrial Solutionizing Conditions of the As-Cast Billets G. K. Triantafyllidis, I. Kiligaridis, D. I. Zagkliveris, I. Orfanou, S. Spyridopoulou, E. Mitoudi-Vagourdi, S. Semertzidou Department of Chemical Engineering, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece Email: gktrian@auth.gr Received 28 December 2014; accepted 16 January 2015; published 21 January 2015 Copyright © 2015 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). /licenses/by/4.0/ Abstract Heat treatable Al alloys of the 6xxx series are produced by the industry following a path that con- solidates melting of raw materials, casting the melt in billets, solutionizing the billets following a suitable thermal cycle, pre-heating and extruding the material to profiles and finally aging the profiles. Although this procedure is known for pure materials from the scientific point of view, the introduction of scrap to the raw materials for melting modifies to an extent the fabrication condi- tions that follow casting. This fact affects the production cost. In this article we propose a research way based mainly on micro-Vickers tests that lead to an optimization of the treatment conditions for solutionizing the billets. Keywords A6060 Al Alloy, Strengthening, Solutionizing, Aging, Micro-Vickers 1. Introduction Aluminum alloys are being widely used for structural components in industry because of their l