AA 6063 T66 Aluminum: Premium Architectural Alloy for Corrosion-Resistant Construction

Aluminum AA 6063 is an architectural alloy that offers users a high resistance to corrosion and excellent finishing characteristics. Easy to extrude with fair machinability, AA 6063 can be both hot and cold formed and is commonly available as T6 temper as well as T4 temper.

Properties

General

Property	Value	Condition
Density	2.7 g/cm³	T66

Mechanical

Property	Value	Condition	Comment
Elastic modulus	69.0 GPa	T66
Elongation	12.0 %	T66
Plane-Strain Fracture Toughnes	22.0 - 35.0 MPa·√m		Typical for Wrought 6000 Series Aluminium
Poisson's ratio	0.33 [-]		Typical for Wrought 6000 Series Aluminium
Shear modulus	26.0 - 26.5 GPa		Typical for Wrought 6000 Series Aluminium
Tensile strength	260.0 MPa	T66
Yield strength	230.0 MPa	T66

Thermal

Property	Value	Condition
Coefficient of thermal expansion	2.3e-05 1/K	T66
Melting point	620.0 °C	T66
Specific heat capacity	900.0 J/(kg·K)	T66
Thermal conductivity	200.0 W/(m·K)	T66

Electrical

Property	Value	Comment
Electrical conductivity	21000000.0 - 34000000.0 S/m	Typical for Wrought 6000 Series Aluminium
Electrical resistivity	2.9e-08 - 5e-08 Ω·m	Typical for Wrought 6000 Series Aluminium

Chemical properties

Property	Value	Condition
Aluminium	97.5 - 99.4 %	T66
Chromium	0.1 %	T66
Copper	0.1 %	T66
Iron	0.35 %	T66
Magnesium	0.45 - 0.9 %	T66
Manganese	0.1 %	T66
Other	0.15 %	T66
Silicon	0.2 - 0.6 %	T66
Titanium	0.1 %	T66
Zinc	0.1 %	T66

Technological properties

Property
Workability	Excellent workability.

Property

Workability

Excellent workability.

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