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6061 aluminium alloy plate 6061 is the least expensive and most versatile of the heat treatable 6061 aluminium alloy plate . It has most of the good qualities of aluminum, offering a range of good mechanical properties and corrosion resistance. It can be fabricated by most commonly used techniques, including welding and furnace brazing. In the annealed condition, it has good workability. The full range of T6 properties may be obtained by artificial aging.6061 grade aluminum is used for a wide variety of products and applications from truck bodies and frames to screw machine parts and structural components. 6061 is used where appearance and better corrosion resistance with good strength are required.

about haomei Aluminum Sheet 6061
6061 aluminium alloy plate are one of the most versatile and widely used of the heat treatable alloys. This wrought tooling Sheet exhibits excellent machinability, weldability, and medium strength. Though less strong then most of the 2xxx and 7xxx alloys, 6061 is typically selected where welding or brazing is required or for its high corrosion resistance in all tempers. It has exceptional joining characteristics, good acceptance to anodizing and is easily cold worked and formed in the annealed condition.
It is commonly available in pre-tempered grades such as 6061-O (annealed), tempered grades such as 6061-T6 (solutionized and artificially aged) and 6061-T651 (solutionized, stress-relieved stretched and artificially aged).
Annealed 6061 (6061-O temper) has maximum tensile strength no more than 120 MPa (18,000 psi), and maximum yield strength no more than 55 MPa (8,000 psi). The material has elongation (stretch before ultimate failure) of 25–30%.
T4 temper 6061 has an ultimate tensile strength of at least 210 MPa (30,000 psi) and yield strength of at least 110 MPa (16,000 psi). It has elongation of 16%.
Application of Aluminum Sheet 6061
The main elements are Mg and Si in the aluminum sheet 6061 with medium strength, good corrosion resistance, weldability. Alloy 6061 can be painted on the enamel and anodize oxidation coloring used as building decoration materials. Aluminum sheet 6061 are widely used in all kinds of industrial structures which have certain strength and high antimicrobial resistance, such as manufacturing truck, take style buildings, ships, trains, furniture, machinery parts, precisionmachining etc.
Aluminum sheet 6061 has some differences between T6 and http://T651.Ingeneral, the internal stress of T6 is big and when alloy 6061 is processing, it will be out of shape. For alloy 6061, the most suitable processing condition should be T651, it is stretched on the basis of T6 to eliminate the internal stress.

6061 is a precipitation-hardened aluminum alloy, containing magnesium and silicon as its major alloying elements. Originally called "Alloy 61S", it was developed in 1935. It has good mechanical properties, exhibits good weldability, and is very commonly extruded (second in popularity only to 6063).[3] It is one of the most common alloys of aluminum for general-purpose use.

It is commonly available in pre-tempered grades such as 6061-O (annealed), tempered grades such as 6061-T6 (solutionized and artificially aged) and 6061-T651

6061 Aluminum Plate is made of one of the most versatile of all of the aluminum alloys. 6061 Aluminum Plate is the alloy of choice for all-purpose applications. 6061 Aluminum Plate is an aluminum-silicon-magnesium alloy, strengthened by precipitation hardening. This alloy has medium strength, formability, weldability, machinability and corrosion resistance. 6061 Aluminum plate is used for tooling plate, architectural applications, transportation equipment, bridge railing components, and is useful in welded structural application. We stock 6061 Aluminum Plate in thickness .250'' through 12'' thick in stock available for immediate delivery.

6061-T651 Aluminum Plate
Our 6061 plate has T651 temper, indicating it has been solution heat treated followed by a minimal stretching to reduce stresses in the material. The material was then artificially aged to allow the alloying elements to precipitate out of the material, to give immediate maximum strength.
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Alloy 6061 aluminum plates are one of the most versatile and widely used of the heat treatable alloys. This wrought tooling plate exhibits excellent machinability, weldability, and medium strength. Though less strong then most of the 2xxx and 7xxx alloys, 6061 is typically selected where welding or brazing is required or for its high corrosion resistance in all tempers. It has exceptional joining characteristics, good acceptance to anodizing and is easily cold worked and formed in the annealed condition.

Applications:
Aircraft landing parts
Marine vessels
Structural architectural parts
Storage tanks
Heat exchangers

Because of the characteristics of 6061 aluminum alloy plate, it is often used in aluminum sheet metal, automotive body, it is belong to a very large amount of use and range alloy materials.



6061 aluminum alloy is an alloy where there are elements of aluminum, silicon, iron, copper, magnesium.Of course, there are also some other elements, but the content of 6061 aluminum alloy is not very high, the silicon content between 0.8 to 1.2, iron content is less than 0.50, the content of Cu in between 0.15 to 0.6, the content of manganese in between 0.20 to 0.8, the content of Mg in between 0.6 to 1, chromium content is less than 0.10, the content of zinc is less than 0.25, titanium content is less than 0.10 the rest of the content is aluminum.

What’s the special meaning of the 6061 aluminium alloy plate in front of the aluminum alloy 6 of them said 6 series, 0 represents the prototype of alloy, without special control of impurities and other alloy elements, meaning the three or four digit two digit 61: this had nothing to do with the composition, no special meaning, only to distinguish different alloy.