What Is Aluminum 6063
Updated: 2 Jul 2024
The main alloying elements of 6063 aluminum alloy are magnesium and silicon. It is a deformable aluminum alloy that can be strengthened by heat treatment. Although its strength is slightly lower than that of 6061 aluminum alloy, it has excellent extrusion formability, good processing performance, and excellent corrosion resistance. After oxidation coloring and spraying surface treatment, the surface of 6063 aluminum alloy is smooth and beautiful in color. It is widely used in door and window building materials, home decoration, appearance components of consumer electronic products, and automotive interior parts.
1. Heat treatment strengthening: It has high impact toughness and is insensitive to defects.
2. Excellent thermoplasticity: It can be extruded into various profiles with complex structures, thin walls, and hollows at high speed, or forged into forgings with complex structures. The quenching temperature range is wide and the quenching sensitivity is low. After extrusion and forging demolding, as long as the temperature is higher than the quenching temperature, it can be quenched by water spraying or water penetration. Thin-walled parts (thickness less than 3mm) can also be wind quenched.
3. Excellent welding performance and corrosion resistance: no tendency to stress corrosion cracking. Among the heat-treatable aluminum alloys, Al-Mg-Si alloys are the only alloys that have not been found to have stress corrosion cracking.
4. Smooth surface and easy to handle: The surface is very smooth after processing and easy to anodize and color. The disadvantage is that if it is left at room temperature for some time after quenching and then aged, it will have an adverse effect on strength.
6063 aluminum is a good alloy material with good surface finish and can create a good appearance. 6063 aluminum profiles are used in various building applications, including roofs, window frames, door frames, furniture, decorative materials (edge trim, skirting), solar frames, etc. Whether a building or an industrial product, aluminum 6063 is a reliable and cost-effective choice.
Benefits of aluminum 6063
6063 aluminum alloy is widely used in industrial profiles, building profiles, irrigation pipes, and extrusion materials for vehicles, stands, furniture, and fences. Its main features are as follows:1. Heat treatment strengthening: It has high impact toughness and is insensitive to defects.
2. Excellent thermoplasticity: It can be extruded into various profiles with complex structures, thin walls, and hollows at high speed, or forged into forgings with complex structures. The quenching temperature range is wide and the quenching sensitivity is low. After extrusion and forging demolding, as long as the temperature is higher than the quenching temperature, it can be quenched by water spraying or water penetration. Thin-walled parts (thickness less than 3mm) can also be wind quenched.
3. Excellent welding performance and corrosion resistance: no tendency to stress corrosion cracking. Among the heat-treatable aluminum alloys, Al-Mg-Si alloys are the only alloys that have not been found to have stress corrosion cracking.
4. Smooth surface and easy to handle: The surface is very smooth after processing and easy to anodize and color. The disadvantage is that if it is left at room temperature for some time after quenching and then aged, it will have an adverse effect on strength.
6063 aluminum is a good alloy material with good surface finish and can create a good appearance. 6063 aluminum profiles are used in various building applications, including roofs, window frames, door frames, furniture, decorative materials (edge trim, skirting), solar frames, etc. Whether a building or an industrial product, aluminum 6063 is a reliable and cost-effective choice.
