Como eu já havia dito em algum post, a anodização enfraquece o alumínio... claro que para o tipo das nossas aplicações, isto pode ser irrelevante, mas para outras, onde o material é elemento estrutural as coisas mudam.
Segundo um forum gringo, para uso em que a proteção a corrosão é importante, mas o material deve manter suas propriedades, NUNCA faça a anodização pelo método Sulfúrico; o indicado é o método Crômico:
Tipos de Anodização:
http://www.ihccorp.com/IHC-Anodize.htmMensagem sobre tal método:
" I am sure that most of you have now read the article in Sport Aviation about
the control tube that failed because of anodizing. What the article failed
to point out is that there are 3 basic types of anodizing. Chromic,
Sulfuric, and Hard. Our club president had a conversation with the author
of the piece and found out that the part that failed was done using the
Sulfuric method. I am told that aviation applications are done in is the
Chromic method which according to the specification has the least effect on
fatigue failure. This is not to say that it will not increase the fatigue
failure it is just not as severe as the others.
This brings me to my question, which I have never asked anyone until now.
Does anyone know what method XXX uses and have they done an analysis on
the spar fatigue failure? I heard that they no longer ship the spars
anodized. Is this true?
Given that there are now several XXX planes out there with hundreds of
hours on them I don't think this is something to panic about I am just
curious as several people asked me tonight about it and I even had one
potential XXX builder asking. I would like to be able to get back to them
with an informed answer. "