Copper Distributions in Aluminium Alloys

Aluminum alloys are used extensively throughout the world, in items such as decorative architectural applications through fasteners to high strength structural applications. Such a diverse range of application areas has a similarly diverse range of requirements for materials properties and performance. The mechanical properties are achieved through alloying aluminum with a wide range of elements. Copper, which is one of the major alloying additions, is added in varying amounts to many of the different aluminum alloy series.
This book examines how the copper distributions change, as a result of corrosion reactions, and explores the influence of these changes on continued corrosion. The influence of the distribution of copper in aluminum alloys on metal finishing processes and the redistribution of copper as a result of metal finishing is also examined.