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High-Conductivity Aluminum Alloy Sheets (ALmitas+ EC2)
ALmitas+ EC2 offers excellent thermal conductivity and takes advantage of aluminum’s light weight to replace conventional metals, enabling cost reductions.
在庫品✓ An ideal material for replacing copper parts with aluminum
✓ Electrical and thermal conductivity is 55% that of copper; equivalent performance can be achieved by increasing the thickness to 1.8 times.
✓ Replacing with aluminum significantly reduces weight and cost.
- High conductivity
- Weight reduction
- High workability
- Cost reduction
Advantages of replacing with aluminum: Example study for electrically conductive components
Electrical/thermal conductivity is 55% that of copper; thickness is increased to 1.8 times.
Mechanical properties
| Copper | Alminum | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C 1100-O | A1100-H24 | A5052-H34 | 6061-T6 | GM55-H38 | EC2-T6 | |
| Specific gravity | 8.94 | 2.71 | 2.68 | 2.7 | 2.7 | 2.7 |
| Tensile strength | 240 | 125 | 260 | 310 | 400 | 200 |
| Proof stress | 200 | 115 | 215 | 275 | 310 | 180 |
| Elongation | 35 – | 9 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 10 |
| Thermal conductivity w/m･℃ | 390 | 220 | 140 | 170 | 120 | 217 |
| Electrical conductivity %IACS | 101 | 59 | 35 | 43 | 31 | 57 |
| Volume resistivity 10-3μΩ・m |
17.1 | 10.1 | 6.0 | 7.4 | 5.3 | 9.7 |
| Coefficient of linear thermal expansion | 17.7 | 23.6 | 23.8 | 23.6 | 24.2 | 23.5 |
| Young’s modulus (60°C) kN/mm2 |
129.8 | 68.6 | 68.94 | 67.57 | 69.63 | 67.57 |
| Bendability | ✓ ✓ | ✓ ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ ✓ |
| Specific heat J/kg℃ | 385 | 917 | 917 | 917 | 917 | 917 |
