Classification of Copper Alloy

There are three ways to classify the copper alloys.
The first way is according to alloy, they be divided into non alloy of copper and copper alloys. Traditionally, people call non alloy referred to unalloyed copper or pure copper, while other copper alloys belong to the copper alloy, such as copper alloy welding wire.
The second method by function, there are thermal conductivity copper alloy, structure copper alloy and corrosion resistant copper alloy, free cutting copper alloy, flexible copper alloy, damping copper alloy and art copper alloy. Obviously, many copper alloys have more functions.
The third classification method is material forming method. Copper alloy can be divided into cast copper alloy and deformed copper alloys. In fact, many copper alloys can be used for both casting and deformation processing, Usually deformed copper alloys can be used in casting, and many cast copper alloy can not be carried out forging, extrusion deep drawing and other deformation processing.