TY - JFULL AU - Mohammed H. Rady and Mohd Sukri Mustapa and S Shamsudin and M. A. Lajis and A. Wagiman PY - 2019/5/ TI - Analyses and Optimization of Physical and Mechanical Properties of Direct Recycled Aluminium Alloy (AA6061) Wastes by ANOVA Approach T2 - International Journal of Mechanical and Materials Engineering SP - 269 EP - 275 VL - 13 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10010238 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 148, 2019 N2 - The present study is aimed at investigating microhardness and density of aluminium alloy chips when subjected to various settings of preheating temperature and preheating time. Three values of preheating temperature were taken as 450 °C, 500 °C, and 550 °C. On the other hand, three values of preheating time were chosen (1, 2, 3) hours. The influences of the process parameters (preheating temperature and time) were analyzed using Design of Experiments (DOE) approach whereby full factorial design with center point analysis was adopted. The total runs were 11 and they comprise of two factors of full factorial design with 3 center points. The responses were microhardness and density. The results showed that the density and microhardness increased with decreasing the preheating temperature. The results also found that the preheating temperature is more important to be controlled rather than the preheating time in microhardness analysis while both the preheating temperature and preheating time are important in density analysis. It can be concluded that setting temperature at 450 °C for 1 hour resulted in the optimum responses. ER -