Exploring Multi-field Scenarios of Forged Rings Application
Forged rings are annular metal components produced through processes like radial-axial rolling, featuring advantages such as high strength, high toughness, and fatigue resistance. Thanks to these strengths, forged rings application spans multiple fields, where they play a significant role and perform outstandingly. Then, in which specific fields does forged rings application lie? What are the specific usage scenarios? This article will take us to explore the multi-field applications of these rings.
Aerospace Field
In the forged rings application within this field, the requirements for precision and reliability are nothing short of “stringent”. Therefore, materials with higher performance and quality need to be used to meet these demands. Typically, ring forgings are utilized in the manufacturing of key components for aircraft and rocket engines, such as turbine disks, turbine blade mounting rings, landing gear support rings, and casings. These components are enabled to operate stably in high-temperature and high-pressure environments.
Practical Case: A certain domestic aero-engine in China adopts powder metallurgy forged rings. Not only is the weight reduced by 15%, but it can also maintain stable mechanical properties at a high temperature of 1200℃. Moreover, after 1500 hours of bench testing, there are no cracks, and the service life is increased by 30%.
Energy Field
In the wind power industry, forged rings, with their properties like high strength and high toughness, can bear enormous torque and impact force, which makes forged rings application in this field highly favored. They are mainly used in wind turbines, large compressors, oil drilling equipment, safety valve sealing rings of nuclear power plants, turbine rotor retaining rings, reactor pressure vessel sealing rings, etc. As important supporting and transmission components, they bear huge force and torque. Their stability and reliability are directly related to the operating efficiency and safety of the entire equipment.
Practical Case: In Songjie, a wind power project from a Danish enterprise sent drawings to us for customizing main bearing forged rings. These rings are made of 42CrMo4 material, with a single weight exceeding 10 tons. After heat treatment and ultrasonic flaw detection, they successfully passed the service test of 80-meter-high offshore wind turbines, increasing the fatigue life of the unit by 30%, reducing the operation and maintenance cost by 20%, and extending the operation cycle.
Conclusion
In addition to the above, at Songjie, our forged rings application also plays an important role in fields such as marine engineering, automobile manufacturing, petroleum and natural gas, medical devices, and rail transit. Moreover, we continuously optimize and improve material quality, provide high-performance and high-quality forged rings, and are committed to meeting customer needs.