State of the art hexavalent chromium free surface pretreatments for aluminium alloys

At the present time, the phosphoric acid anodising (PAA) process [1] is widely used in America for the pretreatment of aluminium alloys used in adhesively bonded structures. With the replacement of the Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) etch in the anodising line with a hexavalent chromium free altern...

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Main Authors:	Gary Critchlow, Keith Yendall, R.H. Dahm
Format:	Default Conference proceeding
Published:	2007
Subjects:	Materials engineering not elsewhere classified untagged Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/2134/9638
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