High Strength and High Formability Copper Alloy CAC™ 60

High strength, Excellent stress relaxation resistance and Good bend formability

CDA No.64760

Features

  • High strength exceeding 580MPa, suitable for use in small terminals
  • Excellent bend formability compared to other Cu-Ni-Si alloys, providing greater flexibility in terminal and connector designs
  • Excellent stress relaxation resistance. Applicable to SAE class 4
  • Achiving 44% IACS in electrical conductivity, making it suitable for high-current cumponents

Applications

  • Small terminals and connectors for automotive wire harness
  • Special terminals for consumer and industrial use, etc.

Nominal Compositions

Cu-1.8Ni-0.4Si-1.1Zn-0.1Sn (mass%)

Characteristics

Physical Properties

Stress Relaxation Resistance of CAC™ 60
Specific Gravity 8.9
Coefficient of Thermal Expansion (293~573K) 17.3 x 10 -6 /K
Thermal Conductivity (293K) 197 W/m.K
Electrical Resistivity (293K) 39.2 nΩ.m
Electrical Conductivity (293K) 44 % IACS
Modulus Elasticity (293K) 127 GPa
  • *Note: The above are typical characteristics.

Mechanical Properties

Temper Tensile Strength
MPa
Yield Strength
MPa
Elongation
%
Vickers Hardness
MHv: 4.9N
H 600–700 580 10 min 180–220
EH 640–740 640 3 min 190–230
  • *Note 1: Figures in yield strength are nominal values.
  • *Note 2: The above tensile strength and hardness are standard specifications. Technical specifications will be determined according to consumer requests.

90°V-Type Bend-Formability (MBR)

Temper Good Way Bad Way
H 0 0
EH 0.5 0.2
  • *Note: The above are typical characteristics. The value slightly varies depending on the thickness of specimens.

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