Aerospace components require high‑purity steels and alloys with excellent strength, fatigue resistance, and stability. Key quality features include certified materials, full traceability, controlled heat treatment, non‑destructive testing, and compliance with aerospace standards.
General aerospace components are designed for operation in highly demanding environments where safety, reliability, and performance are critical. Material requirements are driven by extreme mechanical loads, wide temperature ranges, fatigue exposure, and, in many cases, corrosive atmospheres. Steels and advanced alloys used in aerospace applications must exhibit high strength‑to‑weight ratios, excellent fatigue resistance, fracture toughness, and long‑term dimensional stability. Material cleanliness and controlled microstructure are essential to prevent premature failure.
Commonly used steels include high‑strength low‑alloy steels, martensitic and precipitation‑hardened stainless steels, and vacuum‑melted aerospace grades to ensure low inclusion content. Nickel‑based and titanium alloys are applied for elevated‑temperature performance and weight reduction. Quality features are governed by aerospace standards and include full material traceability, certified chemical composition, validated heat treatment, and strict process control. Non‑destructive testing, dimensional verification, and surface integrity inspections are standard to guarantee compliance, repeatability, and safe operation throughout the component’s service life.
BÖHLER L625 AMPO is a non-magnetic, corrosion and scale-resistant nickel-base alloy. High toughness and strength from the lowest temperatures up to 1000 °C. Good printability.
Read MoreThe BÖHLER L718 AMPO is a hardenable nickel-base super alloy. This high heat-resistant material shows good strength properties at elevated temperatures up to 750 ° C, as well as excellent creep resistance up to 700 ° C. In addition, it shows excellent corrosion resistance and good printability. Essentially, the same properties can be achieved with printed components made from this powder as with bar material.
Read MoreBÖHLER N695 is a Chromium alloyed stainless steel with high hardness, wear resistance and good corrosion resistance in the hardened and tempered condition. this grade is typically used for parts requiring hardness up to 58 HRC and resistance to wear, corrosion, and oxidation, e.g. balls, rollers, needles and rings for corrosion resistant bearings, but usage is not limited to such applications.
Read MoreBÖHLER N700 is a high-quality corrosion-resistant steel in aerospace quality, in the form of bars, wire and forgings with a diameter/thickness of up to 203 mm in the solution-annealed condition, as well as starting material of any size for forging purposes. It is a martensitic, precipitation-hardenable chromium-nickel-copper steel with high strength and toughness. Further increases in strength can be achieved by cold forming and subsequent precipitation hardening. These products are typically used for parts requiring corrosion resistance and high strength up to 316°C. However, their use is not limited to such applications. However, use is not limited to such applications. Certain processing methods and operating conditions can cause these products to become susceptible to stress corrosion cracking. For applications such as bolting where stress corrosion cracking is possible, the product should be aged for a minimum of 4 hours at the highest temperature compatible with the strength requirements, but in no case lower than 552°C.
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.
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