Wear Performance of AL 6061 Post Heat Treatment

Aluminium Alloy 6000 series has found a wide range of applications in the aerospace, automobile sector in the past decades. With the idea of increasing its performance heat treatment studies on 6061 aluminium alloy is been conducted. The main focus of the this study is to find the effect of heat treatment with different cooling procedure such as air cooled, furnace cooled and gas quenched on mechanical, wear behavior. It was found that strength of heat treated samples has decreased considerably whereas ductility varied with different heat treatment. Hardness of the heat treated samples had considerably decreased. Wear rate of gas quenched samples has increased significantly.