AMS2772™ REV.

G
AEROSPACE
MATERIAL SPECIFICATION Issued 1997-01
Revised 2016-04

Superseding AMS2772F

Heat Treatment of Aluminum Alloy Raw Materials

RATIONALE

AMS2772G revises Equipment (4.3.1.1, 4.3.1.1.2), Uniformity of Quench (4.3.2.5, 4.3.2.5.2), and is a Five Year Review and
update of this specification.

1. SCOPE

1.1 Purpose

This specification covers requirements and recommendations for the heat treatment of wrought aluminum alloy raw
materials (see 8.2.1) by producers. It supersedes AMS-H-6088 and replaces MIL-H-6088.

1.1.1 Tempers

Aluminum alloy tempers are described in SAE AS1990 and ANSI H35.1.

1.1.2 Other Alloys

This specification may be used for alloys other than those specified herein providing temperatures, times, and quenchant
are specified.

1.1.2.1 For those material specifications that specify proprietary heat treat and/or aging practices, all other requirements
of AMS2772 apply.

1.1.3 Other Heat Treatment

1.1.3.1 Parts (See 8.2.2)

Made from wrought raw material shall be heat treated in accordance with AMS2770.

1.1.3.2 Castings and Parts Made from Castings

Are not covered by this specification; heat treatment of aluminum castings and parts made from such castings is covered
by AMS2771.

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1.1.3.3 Temper Conversion

Warehouses, distributors etc. shall conform to 3.8.

1.1.3.4 Procedure for Response-to-Heat-Treatment Tests

Shall conform to 3.9.

2. APPLICABLE DOCUMENTS

The issue of the following documents in effect on the date of the purchase order forms a part of this specification to the
extent specified herein. The supplier may work to a subsequent revision of a document unless a specific document issue is
specified. When the referenced document has been cancelled and no superseding document has been specified, the last
published issue of that document shall apply.

2.1 SAE Publications

Available from SAE International, 400 Commonwealth Drive, Warrendale, PA 15096-0001, Tel: 877-606-7323 (inside USA
and Canada) or +1 724-776-4970 (outside USA), www.sae.org.

AMS2750 Pyrometry

AMS2770 Heat Treatment of Wrought Aluminum Alloy Parts

AMS2771 Heat Treatment of Aluminum Alloy Castings

AMS-H-6088 Heat Treatment of Aluminum Alloys

ARP1962 Training and Approval of Heat-Treating Personnel

AS1990 Aluminum Alloy Tempers

2.2 ASTM Publications

Available from ASTM International, 100 Barr Harbor Drive, P.O. Box C700, West Conshohocken, PA 19428-2959, Tel:
610-832-9585, www.astm.org.

ASTM STP15D Manual on Presentation of Data and Control Chart Analysis

ASTM B557 Tension Testing Wrought and Cast Aluminum- and Magnesium-Alloy Products

ASTM B557M Tension Testing Wrought and Cast Aluminum- and Magnesium-Alloy Products
(Metric)

ASTM B666/B666M Identification Marking of Aluminum and Magnesium Products

ASTM G110 Evaluating Intergranular Corrosion Resistance of Heat Treatable Aluminum Alloys by
Immersion in Sodium Chloride + Hydrogen Peroxide Solution

2.3 U.S. Government Publications

Copies of these documents are available online at http://quicksearch.dla.mil.

MIL-H-6088 Heat Treatment of Aluminum Alloys

MIL-STD-1537 Electrical Conductivity Test for Verification of Heat Treatment of Aluminum Alloys, Eddy
Current Method
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2.4 ANSI Publications

Copies of these documents are available online at http://webstore.ansi.org/.

ANSI H35.1 American National Standard Alloy and Temper Designation Systems for Aluminum

2.5 Battelle Publications

Available from Battelle, 505 King Ave, Columbus, OH 43201 or www.mmpds.org.

MMPDS Metallic Materials Properties Development and Standardization (MMPDS)

3. TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

3.1 Equipment Qualification

Before production heat treatment, each solution heat treating furnace/quench facility and each aging furnace shall be
qualified by tensile and metallurgical testing (see 4.4) of heat treated samples representative of the most quench-sensitive
(see 4.3.2.5.1) product to be heat treated. In addition, qualification of quench facilities shall include conformance to 4.3.

3.1.1 Sample Thickness

Tensile tests shall be representative of the thinnest and the thickest material to be heat treated; intermediate thickness
samples shall be included when necessary to ensure proper production heat treatment. Thickness for metallurgical tests
shall conform to 4.4.

3.1.2 Sample Locations

Samples shall be randomly positioned in simulated production loads except at least one of the tensile test samples shall be
positioned at a location which exhibited a conductivity within 0.3% of the highest conductivity in a quench uniformity test.

3.1.3 Equipment Re-Qualification

Whenever any qualified equipment is changed or reworked, it shall be re-qualified unless it is known that the change or
rework will not have a detrimental effect upon the properties of products. Re-qualification of quench facilities shall include
conformance to 4.3.

3.2 Pyrometry

Shall conform to AMS2750 except (1) it is not applicable to furnaces used only for stress relieving or full annealing below
825 °F (441 °C), (2) recordings from instruments may be stored on magnetic or optical media providing a hard copy is
producible on request, and (3) in continuous and semi- continuous furnaces, the requirements applicable to controls,
instruments, and sensors in the working (soaking) zone shall also be applicable to the heating (heat-up) zone.

3.2.1 The temperature uniformity test requirements of AMS2750 shall be modified as follows:

3.2.1.1 Load Condition

Initial tests shall be performed with a typical load. Subsequent tests may be performed with any load or no load. Furnaces
which have only been tested with a heavy load (in anticipation of only heat treating heavy loads) (see 8.2.9) shall not be
used to heat treat light loads unless load sensors and recording instruments are employed to (1) preclude any portion of
the load exceeding the maximum specified temperature on heat-up and (2) ensure soaking within the specified range for
the required time.

3.2.1.2 Load Sensors

When all production loads are heavy (see 8.2.9) and a temperature uniformity test load is heavy, load sensors may be used
in lieu of uniformity test sensors.