I got the alloy for certain age hardening experiments and did spectrochemical analysis on it. I got confused when I saw the composition as it is not similar to commercial age hardenable aluminium alloys. Can I go ahead with my experiment given the composition of the alloy?
Thank you @ Moera Gutu Jiru. Do you have a paper published on that?
sounds like recycled / scrap-enriched cast material, yes, can be heat treated (depends on what u want to do with that material). I would expect maybe some eutectic Si and maybe a few Cu-rich intermetallic phases.
Dear Dr. Reginald Umunakwe ,
I suggest you to have a look at the following, interesting douments:
- The Effect of Processing Parameters and Alloy Composition on the Microstructure Formation and Quality of DC Cast Aluminium Alloys
By Majed M. R. Jaradeh
In Materials Processing Department of Material Science and Engineering School of Industrial Engineering and Management KTH-Royal Institute of Technology SE-10044 Stockholm, Sweden (2006)
Available at: http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:11229/FULLTEXT01.pdf
- Effect of Si, Cu and processing parameters on Al-Si-Cu HPDC castings
Imane Outmani, Laurence Fouilland-Paille, Jérôme Isselin, Mohamed El Mansori
Journal of Materials Processing Technology,Elsevier, 249, pp.559-569 (2017)
Available at: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02353402/document
My best regards, Pierluigi Traverso
In heat treatment process, May be chances of oxidation if it is done open air experiment..
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