A Brief Description about Billet Aluminium

Posted by metenere65 on March 30th, 2015

Aluminium is the most commonly used metals that come in use for manufacturing a wide range of the products. It is easy for the manufacturers to understand the importance of aluminium. These metals are light in weight and have high tensile strength, which is almost the same as of the steel. Though this article is cantered to tell about Billet Aluminium yet, it is important to understand why aluminium is the best-recommended metal for this product.

Well, one of the reasons for this may be because it is rust-resistant and so has a higher reflectivity and conductivity of the electricity. The aluminium is non- brittle when exposed to excessive cold and is also non- combustible. The maximum use of this metal is done in constructing several means of transport like aircraft, boats, and trains and varied other items like engine cylinder heads and pistons, window frames, foil for packaging and insulation.

The next best reason for this metal being higher on demand is that it is easy to drill, cut and machine, and can be welded and soldered with the correct tools.

Now let us get back to billet aluminium. You all must be curious to know why this metal is so much in use to make billets. For this, you need to understand all about the Billets.

BILLET

The billet is brought to use or can be heard about the maximum time in a ship or at marine services. Yet, it is important to understand what it is actually so as to know the reason behind it being higher on demand and also costly.

The billet is basically a length of metal which may either be in a round or square shaped cross sections. Production of billet also involves the extrusion process and billets are created indirectly through the hot rolling of an ingot or bloom.

Therefore, the aluminium extrusion process involves forcing of aluminium billet. This forcing is done through steel or ceramic die and it further undergoes plastic deformation, which can be aided by heating in optimal temperature. The billet that is to be formed is larger than the die’s aperture and shorter than the resultant extrusion. Billets are made using various other metals such as magnesium, steel, iron, lead etc. Yet, the aluminium works best in making this billet. This is because it is soft metal and many of these billets are formed using aluminium alloy.