Wind power components require high-performance BÖHLER steels with excellent fatigue, toughness, and corrosion resistance. Key quality features include ultra-clean materials, full traceability, controlled heat treatment, and rigorous testing for reliable wind turbine operation.
Wind power components such as main shafts, bearings, gears, and fasteners are exposed to highly dynamic loads, fluctuating temperatures, and harsh environmental conditions including humidity, salt spray, and offshore atmospheres. Material requirements are therefore focused on high fatigue strength, fracture toughness, corrosion resistance, and long-term reliability under cyclic loading. Resistance to stress corrosion cracking and wear is essential to ensure safe and efficient turbine operation over extended service lifetimes.
BÖHLER high-performance steels and alloys are specifically engineered to meet the demanding requirements of wind energy applications. Advanced low-alloy and quenched and tempered steels provide excellent strength-to-toughness ratios, while stainless and corrosion-resistant grades ensure durability in aggressive environments. Produced using advanced melting technologies, BÖHLER materials offer superior cleanliness and homogeneous microstructures, reducing fatigue crack initiation and improving component lifetime. Key quality features include precise control of chemical composition, full traceability, and validated heat treatment processes. Comprehensive testing, including non-destructive inspection and mechanical verification, ensures reliability and compliance with industry standards. BÖHLER solutions support efficient, durable, and safe wind turbine operation.
The newly developed, patent pending, BÖHLER E185 AMPO is an AM powder, fulfilling the highest demands from various industries, ranging from motorsport to engineering components and any kind of prototype applications. This low alloyed steel with easy printability and the possibility for surface treatments (e.g. case hardening or nitriding) was developed especially for the demands of the 3D printing industry. The material shows an excellent combination of strength and toughness.
Read MoreBÖHLER M789 AMPO is a newly developed maraging steel, which combines the mechanical properties of 1.2709 with the corrosion resistance of 17-4PH. This patent bending grade can easily printed without any preheating and achieves a hardness of about 52 HRC with a very easy heat treatment. Furthermore, this material shows an excellent polishability, which makes it the ideal choice for inserts with conformal cooling in plastic injection molding and in any other application where a high hardness and corrosion resistance is of need.
Read MoreBÖHLER N700 AMPO (17-4 PH) is a precipitation hardening nickel martensitic steel. Thanks to its alloying system, this material has excellent corrosion resistance. Can be printed very easily without additional heating of the platform or chamber and, after solution annealing and aging, hardens up to approx. 40 HRC.
Read MoreComponents featuring elevated high-temperature strength for use in thermal engines and power plants, such as turbine blades, turbine discs, screws, bolts, pins and shafts.
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