The effects of artificial aging on wear properties of AA 6063 alloy


GAVGALI M., Totik Y., SADELER R.

MATERIALS LETTERS, cilt.57, ss.3713-3721, 2003 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 57
  • Basım Tarihi: 2003
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1016/s0167-577x(03)00168-x
  • Dergi Adı: MATERIALS LETTERS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.3713-3721
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: artificial aging, aluminium alloy, wear, pin-on-disk tribometer, ALUMINUM-ALLOYS, BEHAVIOR
  • Atatürk Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Wear behaviour of age-hardened 6063 aluminium alloy was evaluated under dry sliding conditions. A certain part of the aluminium samples was solution treated at 510degreesC for 2, 4, 6 and 8 h, water-quenched then aged at 180degreesC for 4 h, and the other part was solution treated at 510degreesC for 6 h, water-quenched then aged at 180degreesC for 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 h in a muffle furnace. The as-cast and the aged samples were fully characterised before and after the wear testing using hardness, profilometer, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), optical microscopy, X-ray diffraction, and energy dispersive detector (EDS). The wear tests using on a pin-on-disc machine showed that the aging treatments improved the wear behaviour of AA 6063 alloy compared to as-cast samples. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.