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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2022
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (US);
James M. Boileau, Novi, MI (US);
Bita Ghaffari, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
David N. Seidman, Skokie, IL (US);
David C. Dunand, Evanston, IL (US);
Anthony De Luca, Dübendorf, CH;
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (US);
Abstract
A method of forming an aluminum alloy component including melting and solidifying an aluminum alloy, solution treating the aluminum alloy, and heat treating the aluminum alloy. The aluminum alloy includes scandium, zirconium, erbium, silicon, at least one of molybdenum and tungsten, manganese and the balance aluminum and incidental impurities. The concentration of the alloying elements, in atom %, is greater than 0.0 and less than or equal to 0.15 scandium, greater than 0.0 and less than or equal to 0.35 zirconium, greater than 0.0 and less than or equal to 0.15 erbium, greater than 0.0 and less than or equal to 0.2 silicon, greater than 0.0 and less or equal to 0.75 molybdenum when included, greater than 0.0 and less than or equal to 0.35 tungsten when included.