The Aluminum Association’s Technical Committee on Product Standards (TCPS) completed an update of its Aluminum Standards & Data (AS&D), the industry’s most authoritative source for aluminum alloy and temper designations, chemical composition limits, mechanical properties and tolerances. The new 2024 edition represents the first update to this essential resource since 2017. “With the rapid advancements […]
The Aluminum Association released a new video series showcasing how to properly measure aluminum extrusion tolerances to industry standards. The series contains five videos, each focusing on a different tolerance measurement, including twist, straightness, flatness, and metal and spacing dimensions for solid and hollow profiles. Filmed at the Hydro extrusion plant in Cressona, PA, the videos […]
By Joseph C. Benedyk, Editor. Introduction For decades, additive manufacturing (AM), also known as 3D printing (3DP), has grown and proliferated worldwide into a multibillion dollar industry encompassing many different technologies and types of materials. AM methods embody a group of emerging technologies that create a functional 3D object from any one of a variety […]
Today the Aluminum Association released three updated American National Standards (ANSI) H35 on Alloy and Temper Designation Systems and Dimensional Tolerances for Aluminum Mill Products. These 2017 editions update previous versions last published in 2013. Updated documents include: ANSI H35.1/H35.1(M)-2017 – American National Standard Alloy and Temper Designation System for Aluminum: The new edition revises the […]
