Extrusion of Aluminium Alloys
Publisher: Springer
Published: January 31, 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780412590702
First sentence: Although extrusion is a modern process (rolling and forging being much older) it precedes the development of aluminium which was only commercially available following the invention in 1886, concurrently by Hall and Heroult, of the electrolytic process to extract the metal from bauxite.