Aluminium Extruded Tubes
Aluminium Extruded Tubes are metal tubes manufactured from
aluminum and produced by method of extrusion.
Extrusion is a manufacturing process that is designed to
produce objects (like tubing) of a fixed cross-sectional profile. The Aluminum
is drawn or pushed through a die, the die is manufactured in the shape of the
desired cross section. These can be created using a manufacturing process
however extrusion has two main advantages:
Very complex cross section can be manufactured via
extrusion.
Because the material used in this process only encounters
shear and compressive stress, brittle materials can be worked with.
Hot or Cold material can be used in this process and
manufacture can be continuous or semi-continuous. Semi-continuous produces many
pieces whilst continuous produces in theory an indefinitely long piece.
Aluminium is not the only material that can be used to make
these tubes; below I have listed some other materials and their manufacturing
properties:
Aluminium: this is the most common material and can be
extruded hot or cold, if extruded hot it is heated to between 300 - 600 degrees
Celsius.
Titanium: is heated between 600 - 1000 degrees Celsius and
is mainly used to manufacture aircraft components.
Copper: heated the same as titanium is used also to create
tubing, pipes, rods etc. A large pressure often more than 100ksi is required to
extrude copper.
Lead and Tin: heated at a lower temperature than copper but
used to manufacture the same products.
Magnesium: this is another material used to manufacture
aircraft parts and is as easy to extrude as aluminium.
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