Abstract
Recently aluminum alloy sheet, exclusively AA 6061 T4 is used in the automotive, aircraft, marine and construction industries due to its excellent properties such as noncorrosive, strength to weight ratio and rewards over than steel in ductility. Heat treatment process is agreed more for refinement of grain structures which liberate the residual stress generated from forming and elevate the tensile, yield strength of the material. Mostly heat treatment processes carried over by conventional furnace where heat transfer mode was convection and radiation. In conventional heat treatment process, heat transferring from material surface layer to inner core is through conduction mode. This yields a non-uniform temperature in the thickness direction. To meet agile manufacturing requirements, microwave heat treatment is an inevitable, realistic and economic method over than the conventional heat treating method. This process requires a microwave furnace and a simple masking arrangement. This study aims to eliminate the pitfall by focusing on microwave heat treatment rather than conventional methods, to obtain uniform temperature distribution throughout the material, maximize the physical and mechanical properties and to minimize the power consumption. Also a comparison of the physical and mechanical properties with conventionally heat treated is carried out.
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