TESTING 1-2-3


EXAMINING WROUGHT ALLOYS


AN MCDP STAFF REPORT P


Editor’s Note: Testing 1-2-3 will be a semi-monthly feature in Metal Casting Design & Purchasing summarizing experiments from the fi eld of casting research.


ersonnel from Rio Tinto Alcan’s Arvida Research and Development Centre, Jonquiere, Quebec, Canada, re- cently conducted an experiment to test the mechanical properties and phase transformation of two wrought alloy families cast to near-net-shape. T e goal when casting wrought alloys (in this case 6061 and 6082) is to use heat treatment to achieve


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the mechanical properties achieved through the mechanical working of wrought products.


In a paper detailing their work,


Bruno Bourassa, Danny Jean, Alain Lemieux , Joseph Langlais and Fredrick Major summarized the


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