6061 Aluminum Uses

6061 aluminum is used extensively as a construction material, most commonly in the manufacture of automotive components. The 6061 alloy is well-suited to the construction of yachts, motorcycles, bicycle frames, scuba tanks, camera lenses, fishing reels, electrical fittings, couplings and valves. It’s used in the construction of aluminum cans, and the inside foil wrapper on food containers is often made with 6061 aluminum alloy. Aluminum-magnesium-silicon alloys are also used in wide-span roof structures for bridge decks and arenas.

So please think the possibility of using Al6061 - SiC composite for the abovesaid applications.

Thanks sir. Can you tell me some components name where we already use Al6061/SiC composite?

Al6061/SiC MMCs are used in Cams, Gears, Bearings, Clutches for minimizing the wear.

Thanks Mr. A G Yuvaraju Bonda. Can you please give me some reference with your answer?

Disc brake rotor, piston head, engine block, drive shafts, connecting rod etc. Please refer the following text book for more details.

Nikhilesh Chawla, Krishan K. Chawla, Metal Matrix Composites, Springer, 2nd Edison, New York, 2013.

engine blocks, badminton shafts, gears cams

Bearings, Engine block , connecting rod , piston head

Gears. Cam,engine blocks

One can consider the Al6061-SiC particulate MMC for automobile applications such as Yacht construction and small functional boats; chassis of the Audi A8; Bearing surfaces, bushes, cylinder liners, pistons, camshafts; A diving cylinder, SCUBA tanks; Bicycle Frames and components; and aerospace applications such as wings and fuselages of homebuilt aircraft structures, helicopter rotor blades etc; Internal aerospace engine components, Exhaust systems; military applications such as in AR-15 rifle variants, docks and gangways, helicopter rotor components; also some general applications include packaging of food and beverages, fly fishing reels.