Among the applications of various titanium alloy products, forgings are mostly used in applications that require high strength, toughness and reliability, such as turbine compressor disks and medical artificial bones.
Therefore, titanium alloy forgings not only require high dimensional accuracy, but also require materials with excellent characteristics and high stability. For this reason, the characteristics of titanium alloys must be fully utilized during the manufacturing process of titanium forgings to obtain high-quality forgings. Titanium alloy is difficult to forge and prone to cracks. Therefore, the most important thing in the production of titanium alloy forgings is to properly control the forging temperature and plastic deformation.
Application fields of titanium alloy forgings:
1. Aerospace field
50% of the world's titanium materials are used in the aerospace field. 30% of the body of military aircraft uses titanium alloy, and the amount of titanium used in civilian aircraft is also gradually increasing. In the aerospace field, titanium alloy forgings are used in fuel tanks of rocket and satellite propulsion engines, attitude control engine casings, blades of liquid fuel turbine pumps, and inlet sections of suction pumps.
2. Steam turbine blades for power generation
Increasing the blade length of steam turbines for thermal power generation is an effective measure to improve power generation efficiency, but lengthening the blades will increase the load on the rotor.
