Basics
This process creates new metal from alumina
What is smelting?
This alloy family is capable of the highest strengths.
What is 7xxx series?
This product is a round hollow section, seamless or structural, made to a predetermined set of OD and Wall requirements.
What is Pipe?
This regulates orders for the Department of Defense orders.
What is Defense Priorities Allocation System - DPAS?
This testing assesses the mechanical properties of a heat lot of a material.
What is tensile testing?
This 99.97% pure aluminum product is sold on the London Metal Exchange in sows.
What is P-1020?
These tempers are achieved through a thermal practice, start with the letter T.
What are heat treated tempers?
This process forms aluminum into linear shapes at an elevated temperature process, resulting in a wide range of profiles.
What is Extrusion?
This regulation requires that all aluminum products in Harmonized Tariff codes 7601 - 7609 imported to the USA, declare the largest and second largest country of smelt.
What is the Aluminum Import Monitoring System?
This nondestructive testing is typically a type I or type II with class AA, A and B discontinuity limits.
What is Ultra Sonic Inspection?
This country produces more primary aluminum than any other country in the world.
What is China?
This process occurs at the end of the solutionizing step and 'freezes in place' the preciptates.
What is quenching?
This process produces rod and bar sections that have tighter dimensional tolerances.
What is cold finishing?
This regulation covers electrical connector products used in the EU, with the goal of reducing lead content.
What is RoHS?
This testing method for armor plate uses firing a projectile at the sample to verify penetration limits are met.
What is ballistic testing?
This country produces more bauxite ore than any other country.
What is Australia?
This process is used to change T4 to T6 temper.
What is Aging?
What is Plate?
This regulation is a result of the war in Ukraine and imposes tariffs of 200% on aluminum products imported in to the US containing primary of Russian origin.
What is the Presidential Proclamation on Aluminum?
This testing method determines the number of cycles a material can be flexed without breaking. It is commonly used for 7050 plate.
What is fatigue testing?
This process to smelt aluminum was developed simultaneously by two different individuals.
What is the Hall-Heroult Process.
This is the process that takes T6 temper to a T7 temper or a T3 temper to T8.
What is Over-aging?
This product is .006 - .249 of an inch in thickness.
What is sheet?
This specification governs distributors of aerospace products.
What is AS 6279
This characteristic is determining the amount that a material stretches before it fractures.
What is elongation?