The Atmospheric Stress-Corrosion Resistance of some Forged High Strength Aluminium Alloys and an Assessment of the Effects of a Step-Quench into Molten Salt

1 November 1959

journal article
research article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Aeronautical Quarterly

Vol. 10 (4) , 297-318
https://doi.org/10.1017/s000192590000158x

Abstract

Since the introduction of aluminium-zinc-magnesium-copper alloys, investigations into the behaviour of these high strength materials, over a wide range of composition, have indicated the significance of corrosion as a factor affecting the cracking of these alloys after prolonged stressing at loads below the ultimate tensile strength of the material.Most of the previous work designed to assess the stress-corrosion resistance of aluminium-zinc-magnesium-copper alloys (D.T.D. 683A*) was carried out on sheet and plate material and the present investigation is concerned with the examination of these materials in the form of large hand-forged slabs, tested in the short transverse direction.

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