Heat treatment of AL

[thedude2]

I work as a stress engineer in Aerospace and I periodically choose different types of Al for design engineers to use, along with their associated heat treatments. What I am looking for is either a good website or a good understanable book that would explain the positive and negative aspect of each heat treatment with the different types of AL.

 

ASM can help you out enormously in this.

 

[boo1]

I use the book "Engineering Data for Aluminum Strustures", from the Aluminum Association, 5th ed, 1986
or

http://www.matweb.com/main.htm