Tech QA taken from “Aluminum Now” Magazine（技术问答取自u201C铝u201D杂志）.pdfVIP

Tech QA taken from “Aluminum Now” Magazine The responses below were provided to “Aluminum Now” by Warren Hunt Ph.D. and / or Lynne Karabin Ph.D. (Aluminum Consultants Group Inc . or Aluminum Consulting LLC) The Aluminum Association provides information and resources about aluminum products and aluminum-related technology as a service to interested parties. Information provided by the Aluminum Association is generally intended for users with a technical background and may be inappropriate for use by laypersons. While the Aluminum Association makes every effort to disseminate the most reliable and current information available, the Aluminum Association does not warrant that the use of such information is appropriate for any particular purpose. In all cases, users should not rely on this information without consulting original source material and/or undertaking a thorough scientific analysis. How long will it take to naturally age 6061-T4 to a T6 condition? Data presented in Aluminum: Properties and Physical Metallurgy, ed. J . E. Hatch, American Society for Metals, 1984 indicate that after 10 years of aging at room temperature, 6061-T4 material has not yet reached the ultimate tensile strength or tensile yield strength of the T6 temper. Typically, artificial aging at a temperature between 320°F and 350°F is used to obtain the T6 temper in 6061. Even if one had the opportunity to wait more than 10 years to naturally age the material to those strength levels, the microstructures of the naturally aged and artificially aged materials would be expected to be quite different. During artificial aging, the electrical conductivity of 6061 increases as the matrix becomes more and more depleted of solute as the precipitates grow. During room-temperature natural aging, the electrical conductivity of 6061 decreases, suggesting zone formation instead. If you are interested in the publication Aluminum: Properties and