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INTRODUCTION TO BRASS

INTRODUCTION TO BRASS. BY Veerapong Suejindaphorn Panupong Tassawong. Overview.

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INTRODUCTION TO BRASS

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  1. INTRODUCTION TO BRASS BY VeerapongSuejindaphorn PanupongTassawong

  2. Overview • Brass is the generic term for a range of copper-zinc alloys with differing combinations of properties, including strength, machinability, ductility, wear-resistance, hardness, colour, electrical and thermal conductivity, and corrosion-resistance. • Brass does not become brittle at low temperatures like mild steel.

  3. Overview • Brass also has excellent thermal conductivity making it a first choice for heat exchangers (radiators). • Brasses have a range of attractive colours ranging from red to yellow to gold to silver. With the addition of 1% manganese, brass will weather to a chocolate brown colour.

  4. Overview • BRIEF HISTORY OF BRASS - Brass has been made for almost as many centuries as copper but • has only in the last millennium been appreciated as an engineering alloy. • Predynastic Egyptians represented it by the ankh symbol, also used to denote eternal life. • The Greeks knew brass as ‘oreichalcos’, a brilliant and white copper. • Romans also liked it especially for the production of golden coloured helmets.

  5. Structure • Brass is an alloy; metallic bonds hold different metals in alloys together. It conducts electricity so the electrons must be delocalized. • There is no chemical formula for brass because it is an alloy and not a chemical compound. Brass is made by combining copper and zinc in an approximately 2 to 1 ratio. But there are a ton of different alloys, each with its own ratio of copper to zinc and each with its own mechanical properties.

  6. Structure • Examaple : YELLOW BRASS 60 % copper 40 % Zinc • RED BRASS 85% copper 15% Zincas a mineral • however it would be Cu3Zn2.

  7. Properties on advantages • The use of brass provides an excellent, high class look. The advantages of brass for architectural applications include its excellent corrosive resistance, and it’s joining, plating, polishing and finishing characteristics. Brass is easily machined.  • B r a s s i s c h e a p e r t h a n s t e e l !

  8. Properties on limitations • Brass requires a good deal of maintenance since it is prone to a blackish tarnish. The biggest challenge to upkeep most metals, including brass, is the removal and inhibition of tarnish. All substances, especially metals, oxidize when exposed to the air.

  9. Applications • EFFECT OF ALLOYING ADDITIONS • Alloying additions are made to the basic copper-zinc alloys for avariety of reasons:- • to improve machinability • to improve strength and wear resistance • to improve corrosion resistance • for other special reasons The very wide variety of standard brass compositions that areavailablereflect the many ways in which an optimum combinationof properties can be tailored to ensure fitness for the desiredapplication.

  10. Applications • Germicidal properties: The copper in brass makes brass germicidal, via the oligodynamic effect. For example, brass doorknobs disinfect themselves of many bacteria within eight hours. This effect is important in hospitals, and useful in many contexts.

  11. Typical Engineering Applications • High Tensile : Shafts, Valve spindles, Bearings. • High Corrosion Resistance : Nuts, Plumbing fittings, Gas fittings, Marine fittings. • Free-Machining : Electrical components, Cable connectors, Jets, Injectors, Unions, Terminals • Cold working : Automotive components, Pins, Precision etching, Motion sensors.

  12. The End Thank you

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