5052 aluminum vs. 6061 aluminum — what’s the difference?

Posted by Ben Kammer in Articles

Aluminum is one of the world’s most commonly used metals — and with good reason. Light-weight, highly corrosion-resistant, and easy to fabricate with a high strength-to-weight ratio, it’s an extremely versatile material with near-endless applications. Better together As useful a material as pure aluminum is, it can take on more helpful properties when combined with other elements to form alloys. Alloys tend to be significantly more durable than pure elements and often have other...