Misplaced Pages

1200 aluminium alloy

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Aluminium alloy

1200 Aluminium alloy has aluminium as the major element, and has silicon, zinc, copper, titanium and manganese as minor elements.

Chemical Composition

Element Weight Percentage (%)
Aluminum ≥ 99
Silicon + Iron ≤ 1
Zinc ≤ 0.10
Copper ≤ 0.050
Titanium ≤ 0.050
Manganese ≤ 0.050
Other (each) ≤ 0.050
Other (total) ≤ 0.15

Mechanical Properties

Property Value
Young's modulus 69 GPa
Elongation at break 5.1%
Fatigue strength 49 MPa
U.T.S. 130 MPa
Yield strength 100 MPa
Latent Heat of Fusion 400 J/g
Specific Heat Capacity 900 J/kg-K
Thermal Conductivity 230 W/m-K

Applications

Applications of 1200 Aluminium alloy are listed below:

  1. Construction and roofing
  2. Holloware
  3. Equipment and containers for food and chemical industries
  4. Ship building
  5. Fin-stocks
  6. Bottle caps
  7. Automobiles
  8. Furniture and lighting
  9. Sounding boards
  10. Conductive materials

References

  1. ^ "1200 aluminium alloy". 3 May 2013. Archived from the original on 2015-10-27.
  2. "1200 Aluminium properties". Archived from the original on 2016-11-07.

Aluminum alloy table

Aluminium alloys
Introduction
Al 1000 series (pure)
Al-Cu 2000 series
Al-Mn 3000 series
Al-Si 4000 series
Al-Mg 5000 series
Al-Mg-Si 6000 series
Al-Zn 7000 series
8000 series (misc.)
Named alloys
Category: