Publish Time: 2023-03-31 Origin: Site
According to Jiahangaero aluminum and aluminum alloy forgings are mainly used in industrial sectors that require a high degree of light weight. According to the current application situation in various countries, the main market distribution is as follows.
(1) Aviation (aircraft) forgings: Forgings on aircraft account for about 70% of the weight of aircraft materials, such as landing gear, frames, ribs, engine parts, moving rings and non-moving rings, etc. Thousands of forgings are used on an aircraft Among them, except for a few high-temperature parts using high-temperature alloys and titanium alloy forgings, most of them have been aluminized. For example, the Boeing Company of the United States has an annual production of thousands of aircraft and consumes tens of thousands of tons of aluminum alloy forgings.
(2) Aerospace forgings: The forgings on spacecraft are mainly forging rings, rims, spars and machine bases, etc. Most of them are aluminum forgings, with only a few titanium forgings. The development of spaceships, rockets, missiles, satellites, etc. has an increasing demand for aluminum forgings.
(3) Ordnance industry: For conventional weapons such as tanks, armored vehicles, personnel carriers, chariots, rockets, gun mounts, and warships, the number of aluminum alloy forgings used as load-bearing parts has greatly increased, basically replacing steel forgings. In particular, important forgings such as aluminum alloy tank road wheels have become important materials for the lightweight and modernization of weapons and equipment.
(4) Automobile industry:Automobile is the most promising industry using aluminum alloy forgings, and it is also the largest user of aluminum forgings. It is mainly used as hubs (especially heavy-duty vehicles and large and medium-sized buses), bumpers, base girders and other small aluminum forgings, among which aluminum wheels are the most used aluminum forgings, mainly used in buses, trucks and heavy-duty vehicles. In recent years, it has also begun to be used in small and medium-sized cars, motorcycles and limousines. According to statistics, the annual growth rate of the amount of aluminum wheels has reached more than 20% in the past few years in the world, and the current amount of use has reached billions.
(5)In the energy and power industry, aluminum forgings will gradually replace some steel forgings to make racks, retaining rings, moving rings and non-moving rings, as well as coal transportation wheels, liquefied natural gas flanges, nuclear power plant fuel racks, etc., which are generally large Medium forgings.
(6) Aluminum forgings are used on ships and warships as racks, moving rings and fixed rings, turret mounts, etc.
(7) In the machinery manufacturing industry, it is currently mainly used to make racks, sliders, connecting rods, and twisted coils in woodworking machinery and textile machinery. Tens of thousands of pieces, weighing more than 1,500 tons in China.
(8) In the mold industry, aluminum alloy forgings are used to make rubber molds, shoe molds and other light industrial molds.
(9) In the transportation machinery and locomotive industries, aluminum alloy forgings are widely used as cylinders and piston skirts.
(10) Other aspects, such as electronic communications, household appliances, cultural and sports equipment, etc., have also begun to use aluminum forgings to replace forgings of steel, copper and other materials.