Heat Treatment of Ultrafine Grained AA 6061 Consolidation by Equal Channel Angular Pressing

Abstract

During the last decade Equal Channel Angular Pressing (ECAP) has emerged as a widely known procedure for the fabrication of ultrafine grained metals and alloys. This review examines recent developments related to the use of ECAP for grain refinement. In the current study the part of capsules wrapper for powder material to be compressed where the powder AA6061 was wrapped in copper sheet and heated at a temperature of 400 OC in hot pressed under the pressure of 400 MPa. Afterward the powder in solid condition was cooled in the air and then does analysis characterization. The sample results of AA6061 are ECAP as is and heat treatment with type Anneal and Artificial Aging (T6) where heat treatment is heated at a temperature of 530 °C for 1 h followed by heating at a temperature of 100 °C for one day and the other for heating at a temperature of 415°C for 2.5 hours followed by heating at a temperature of 177 °C for 8 hours. This paper explains the characteristics of each sample where analyses are based on the mechanism of properties to determine how much change of mechanical properties and microstructure. Heat treatment effect on grain coarsening so that the mechanical properties can be engineered.