Material Properties: 6061-T6 Aluminum (UNS A96061)
Data Available:
- Thermal Conductivity
- Specific Heat
- Young's Modulus
- Linear expansion
| Thermal Conductivity | Specific Heat | |
| UNITS | W/(m-K) | J/(kg-K) | 
| a | 0.07918 | 46.6467 | 
| b | 1.0957 | -314.292 | 
| c | -0.07277 | 866.662 | 
| d | 0.08084 | -1298.3 | 
| e | 0.02803 | 1162.27 | 
| f | -0.09464 | -637.795 | 
| g | 0.04179 | 210.351 | 
| h | -0.00571 | -38.3094 | 
| i | 0 | 2.96344 | 
| data range | 4-300 | 4-300 | 
| equation range | 1-300 | 4-300 | 
| curve fit % error relative to data | 0.5 | 5 | 
| Curve fit equation of the form: log10 y = a+b(log10T) + c(log10T) 2 + d(log10T) 3 + e(log10T) 4 + f(log10T) 5 + g(log10T) 6 + h(log10T) 7 + i(log10T) 8 Solves as: y = 10 a+b(log10T) + c(log10T) 2 + d(log10T) 3 + e(log10T) 4 + f(log10T) 5 + g(log10T) 6 + h(log10T) 7 + i(log10T) 8 Where: Coefficients a - i are summarized in the appropriate table and T is the temperature in K (x-axis), and y is the property to solve for. | 
| Young's Modulus | Linear expansion | |
| .UNITS | GPa | [(L-L293)/L293] x 105 unitless, eg. m/m | 
| a | 7.771221E1 | -4.1277E2 | 
| b | 1.030646E-2 | -3.0389E-1 | 
| c | -2.924100E-4 | 8.7696E-3 | 
| d |  8.993600E-7  | -9.9821E-6 | 
| e | -1.070900E-9 | 0 | 
| Tlow (K) | . | 18 | 
| f> | . | -415.45 | 
| data range (K) | 0-299 | 4-300 | 
| equation range (K) | 2-295 | 4-300 | 
| curve fit % error relative to data | 1 | 4 | 
| equation of the form: | |
|  y = a + bT + cT 2 + dT 3 + eT 4  | >T > Tlow | 
|  y = f  | T < Tlow | 
| solves as expected: Where: Coefficients a-e are summarized in the appropriate table and T is the temperature in K (x-axis), and y is the property to solve for. | |