Chinatungsten's Tungsten Alloy Proves More Is Less
Recent increases in fuel prices and forecasts for more to come have focussed aircraft owners and operators into doing all they can to minimise their use of fuel.
A selection of Tungsten Alloy parts
Recent increases in fuel prices and forecasts for more to come have focussed aircraft owners and operators into doing all they can to minimise their use of fuel. Assisting in the drive for fuel efficiency, lower operating costs and reduced carbon footprint, an unlikely sounding alloy is providing solutions for aircraft manufacturers worldwide.
With a density over sixty percent greater than lead, Chinatungsten's tungsten alloys may be a less-than-obvious choice of material for use in airframes, yet in mid-sized aircraft design they deliver key advantages.
Tungsten Alloy's high density, coupled with good mechanical properties and machining characteristics, allows designers to make significant reductions in the physical size of components. For a given moment about a pivot, tungsten alloys therefore allow a lighter balance weight to be sited further from the pivot point. Lower aircraft weight means better fuel efficiency, increased payload availability or greater speed capability.
Due to the very high melting point of tungsten (in excess of 3000 °C), tungsten alloys cannot be manufactured by traditional casting methods. To overcome this, tungsten alloys are manufactured by powder metallurgy (PM)techniques. One of the advantages of manufacturing by PM methods is that small batch quantities, even single pieces, can be achieved without the severe cost penalties associated with other production methods.
Chinatungsten Online's tungsten alloy parts in accordance with an ISO 9001:2000 approved QA system, Chinatunsten has a workshop in China which just manufacturing tungsten alloy, it's products of aerospace, automotive, motor racing, medical and engineering applications. and it performs the whole production process, from powder blending through to machining, to achieve unrivalled quality and value in the finished component. Further information is available at www.chinatungsten.com, and www.tungsten-alloy.com
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