Titanium Overview

Titanium Overview:

Titanium is an extremely useful material with excellent strength-to-weight ratio. The weight savings, strength, corrosion resistance make titanium a favorite of the aerospace industry, and petrochemical industries. Biological compatibility is of interest to the medical industry.

The chemical industry is the largest user of titanium due to its excellent corrosion resistance. Titanium stands up well to oxidizing acids.

The aerospace industry is the second largest user of titanium. Due to its excellent temperature capabilities and weight savings titanium remains the central material in structural components. A little known fact with Boeing 787 Dreamliner the first highly composited aircraft in the world, titanium was used to a greater extent than in previous Boeing projects.

Rickard Specialty Metals and Engineering played a pivotal role in providing titanium forgings for this engineering marvel.

For example, the landing gear on the 787 used the high strength titanium ally, Ti-5al-5v-5Mo-3Cr. The weight savings from a previous steel alloy was 580 kg. The application resulted in a slightly higher strength landing gear and increased corrosion resistance, thus reducing maintenance costs.

Titanium tends to be an expensive material. Rickard Specialty Metal and Engineering is exploring ways to reduce the cost of manufacturing and machining by providing expert knowledge.

Rickard Specialty Metals and Engineering provides technical metals engineering expertise on all high performance alloys and Titanium for the aerospace, chemical processing, and any engineered environment requiring high quality and high performance metal applications