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Aluminum and Its Alloys

ASM HOMESTUDY COURSE (15-Lesson Series)

Course Overview:

Aluminium occupies an important position in the family of metals with a very wide range of industrial and consumer applications. Its combination of light weight, high strength and corrosion resistance are utilised extensively by modern designers to conserve energy and materials.

Course Outline:

1. Introduction to Aluminum: history of aluminium extraction; physical properties; classification; wrought and casting alloys

2. Extractive Metallurgy: bauxite composition; conversion to Al2O3; reduction plants; cryolite electrolytic cell operation; raw materials; impurities and superpurity

3. Solidification and Phase Diagrams: solidification of pure metals; types of alloys; equilibrium diagrams; ternary equilibrium diagrams

4. Aluminum Alloy Systems: binary, ternary and quaternary systems;

5. Aluminum Casting Principles: melting; casting; solidification; grain size; segregation; inclusions; furnaces

6. Aluminum Casting Practice: castability of alloys; casting processes; procedures; sand, shell mold, permanent mold, die, investment, and centrifugal casting

7. Hot and Cold Working Aluminum Alloys: rolling; extruding; forging; deep drawing; spinning; roll, stretch, press brake, other forming

8. Recovery, Recrystallisation and Grain Growth: stages in Recrystallisation; effect of alloying additions on Recrystallisation temperatures; annealing; effect of cold reduction in annealing

9. Precipitation Hardening of Aluminum Alloys: solid solubility characteristics; properties of binary systems; properties of complex alloys; wrought and cast alloys

10. Metallography of Aluminum Alloys: sample preparation; alloy constituents; heat treatment of aluminium copper, aluminium silicon, and other alloys

11. Application and Properties of Wrought Aluminum Alloys: breaking down cast structure; effect of working on grain size

12. Applications and Properties of Aluminum Casting Alloys: : typical casting alloys; grain size effects; specific grades and heat treatments

13. Joining Aluminum Alloys: properties, processes and procedures; welding, brazing and soldering; adhesive bonding; riveting

14. Corrosion of Aluminum Alloys: general aspects; causes, forms of corrosion; effects of alloying; intergranular, stress corrosion; protection; testing

15. Finishing Aluminum: mechanical surface treatment; chemical finishing, milling; electrolytic oxide coatings; other finishes and coatings

Continuing Education Units: 2.8

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