Abstract :
Aluminum alloy 2024 is widely used for aircraft component such as
aircraft skin wings. Aluminum is used as a material for making airplane skin wings
because of its strength and weight ratio. To improve the quality of the 2024
aluminum alloy, a heat treatment process is carried out. There is a heat treatment
process to obtain the desired product for aircraft skin wing applications. The
process consists of solution treatment, quenching, and natural aging.
This research was aimed to investigate the effects of variations in
artificial aging temperature variations on the hardness and microstructure of the
AA 2024 material which was given a solution treatment process at the temperature
of 500°C for 1 hour and then quenched with water for 5 minutes. Then, the artificial
aging process was carried out for 1 hour at temperature variations of 0 °C, 100 °C,
150 °C, 200 °C, and 250 °C. The test results of the 2024 AA material showed that
the level of hardness at temperature variations (1) 0 °C is 43.36 RA, (2) 100 °C is
45.90 RA, (3) 150 °C is 47.23 RA, (4) 200 °C is 50.80 RA, and (5) 250 °C is 36.63
RA. Thus, the highest average strength value was obtained at the temperature
variation of 200 ° C of 50.80 RA.