Aluminium–copper alloys
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Aluminium–copper alloys are aluminium alloys that consist largely of aluminium and traces of copper as the main alloying elements. Important grades also contain additives of magnesium, iron, nickel an
Fire-damaged Duralumin cross brace from the Zeppelin airship Hindenburg (DLZ129) salvaged from its crash site at Lakehurst Maxfield Field, NJ on May 6, 1937
Complete alloy phase diagram
Corrosion of duralumin
Duralumin sample from the 1931 airship USS Akron (ZRS-4)
Aluminium–magnesium–silicon alloys are aluminium alloys—alloys that are mainly made of aluminium—that contain both magnesium and silicon as the most important alloying elements in terms of quantity. B
Ductile fracture of an AlMgSi alloy
Brittle fracture of an aluminum alloy