Thermomechanical ageing for 6XXX extrusions

    公开(公告)号:US12043886B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-23

    申请号:US16342745

    申请日:2017-10-19

    IPC分类号: C22F1/05 B60R19/18

    CPC分类号: C22F1/05 B60R19/18

    摘要: The present invention relates to extrusions for structural components, such as bumper, side impact beam, seat sill in vehicles and more particularly to a method for optimizing strength and energy absorption of 6XXX aluminium alloys extrusions by variations in thermomechanical ageing (TMA) consisting in



    i) an artificial preageing treatment with a duration t1 at a temperature T1 selected to increase the yield strength of said extrusion between 5% and 20%, said temperature T1 being typically between 120° C. and 180° C. and said duration t1 being typically between 1 and 100 hours, to obtain an artificially preaged extrusion,
    ii) a plastic deformation of said artificially preaged extrusion between 1% and 80% to obtain a deformed extrusion,
    iii) a final artificial ageing treatment of said deformed extrusion with a duration t2 at a temperature T2, said temperature T2 being typically between 140° C. and 200° C. and said the duration t2 being typically between 1 and 100 hours.