Materials
Alcoa’s depth of expertise in materials engineering is unmatched
- Alcoa operates the world’s largest light metals research and development center, Alcoa Technical Center (ATC), located in Pittsburgh, Pa.
- More than 100 PhDs, 200 Master’s-degreed professionals and 600 scientists serve on site at ATC, supporting Alcoa’s global businesses and their customers
- Alcoa developed 95 percent of all alloys used to build today’s commercial aircraft
- Alcoa developed 70 percent of the foundry alloys registered with the Aluminum Association
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Processes
Alcoa combines industry-leading alloy and process knowledge to deliver better solutions
- Alcoa is a global leader in understanding and predicting the behavior of aluminum during processing
- Alcoa leads the world in the development and use of phenomenological and physics-based material models
- Examples of Alcoa’s material modeling capabilities include:
- Sheet forming and springback predictability models
- Extrusion collapse modeling
- Castability models
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