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19th February 2024

Analysis of aluminium surface chemistry

Every aluminium rolling company and extrusion company pays attention to the surface properties of their products. Surface properties are usually different to those of the underlying bulk. In most cases, aluminium producers and end users need to regularly check surface quality, especially for surface engineered products, so it’s important to understand surface chemistry.

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1st November 2023

How does billet homogenization affect extrusion quality?
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16th August 2023

Alloy development: combining thermodynamic software and materials characterisation
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5th July 2023

The Static Uniaxial Tensile Test
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19th January 2023

Fatigue testing of automotive adhesive bonds
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7th November 2022

The importance of surface roughness
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20th July 2021

Seeing the light: making good use of optical microscopes
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22nd June 2021

Optical microscopy to analyse aluminium alloy grains
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21st February 2020

Aluminium Surface Analysis: high resolution low-kV SEM
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10th January 2020

Vehicle lightweighting: from laboratory to industry
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8th March 2019

Why paint sticks – it’s all about the pretreatment
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10th August 2018

Total reflectance and colour measurements to evaluate aluminium etching
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26th July 2018

Measuring aluminium surface cleanliness by microscopy
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