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When maintained at temperatures below 250°C, after being subjected to high temperatures (450°C or more), certain aluminum alloys increase their mechanical strength (figure 1). Wilm 's discovery in 1906 of this phenomenon of structural hardening of light alloys by ageing led to the development of the first industrial alloy, Duralumin, in 1916. Since then, precipitation-hardened...
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