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The search for new materials to automotive industry has been intensified in the last decade. Among these materials is the aluminum which is widely used in the construction of automotive parts, sheet and in the manufacture of cables used in line transmission and distribution of electricity. Aluminum and its alloys have high deformation rate which can be hardened by plastic deformation, and low specific weight and high coefficient of thermal conductivity. This work was carried out in order to study the effect of titanium elements (content of 0.050 wt%) and Nickel (content of 0.030 wt.%) in the alloy Al-0.05wt% Cu [0.24 to 0.28]wt% Fe-0.7wt% Si. The alloys in study have concentrations within the chemical composition limits of alloys series 1XXX with minimum purity of 99.0%. The solidification processes were carried out via the steel mold (format of "U").

The maintenance and manufacture of Chassis have been used of more noble materials in the welding applied to the most critical points. In this sense, this study presents the results of some researches developed with ASTM A182 F22 structural steel (a low alloyed steel) by the AWS ER 80S-G Wire. For the buttery, the double layer technique was used with "Higuchi" and "modified Higuchi " tests and the application of "decision diagrams" to refine the parameters to be used. In order to verify the efficiency of the mentioned techniques of fabrication, microhardness tests were carried out, the presence of carbides formed at the interface between the filling and buttery was observed, these responsible for microhardness alterations were also observed the presence of undesired structures such as Martensite in the analyzed ZACs. The welding process used was the GMAW with gas Ar2% O2.

The Hardening by cold work is capable of increasing the mechanical strength of non-ferrous metals. The combination of alloying elements in solid solution and cold working is extremely effective in achieving greater strength for aluminium alloys. However, some alloys may be susceptible to stress corrosion and are notoriously difficult to fabricate during hot and cold work. A requirement for adding the alloy elements in this work will be that the interaction between them will provide hardening by additional cold working, but with no occurrence of chemical interaction between them and not removing them from the solid solution. This paper aims to analyze the effect of cold working on mechanical properties of Al-0.18%Zr, Al-0.18%Zr-2.0%Mg and Al-0.18%Zr-6.0%Mg alloys compared to results obtained without cold working. The alloys were melted in a muffle furnace and cast in a water-cooled Cu mold.

The current Brazilian technological scenario undergoes major transformations, the automobile industry is part of this panorama, where new technologies are presented and the other improved, in this segment we have non-ferrous aluminum alloys, which with the addition of alloys transform into alloys of high performance. Elements of aluminum alloys undergo modifications in their mechanical properties with variation of temperatures, deformation, chemical composition among others. The present work aims at comparing the thermomechanical properties of the experimental results and computational simulations of Al-0.05% Cu- [0.35-0.45] % Fe-0.22% Zr alloy for application in the automotive industry. The alloy was obtained from Al-EC modified by iron insertions in the range of [0.35 - 0.45] % and 0.22% Zr.