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 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 MoreBÖHLER V118S1 is a premium aircraft-quality, low-alloy Ni-Cr-Mo steel in the form of bars, forgings and forging stock requiring high tensile and toughness values, particular in large cross sections in the hardened and tempered condition. The molybdenum addition prevents the steel from being susceptible to temper brittleness. These products have been used typically for parts requiring a through-hardening capability up to 6 inches (152,4 mm) in nominal thickness at time of heat treatment but usage is not limited to such applications.
Read MoreBÖHLER V132 is a premium aircraft-quality, low-alloy Ni-Cr-Mo steel in the form of bars, forgings and forging stock requiring high tensile and toughness values, particular in large cross sections in the hardened and tempered condition. These products have been used typically for parts requiring a through-hardening capability up to 3.5 inches (89 mm) in nominal thickness at time of heat treatment but usage is not limited to such applications. E.g. highly stressed components and parts for the aircraft industry, Tracks, helicopter shafts, bolts and screws.
Read MoreBÖHLER V354 is an alloyed Cr-Mo-V quenched and tempered steel for high strength and high temperature requirements, good weldability and suitable for nitriding. Insensitive to tempering embrittlement due to Mo content. Mainly for components in the aerospace industry to be welded and nitrided with high quenched and tempered strength, at operating temperatures from -75° C to 500° C.
Read MoreBÖHLER V358 in the British Standard Aerospace Series is a 3% Cr-Mo-V nitriding steel offering a tensile strength of 1,320-1,470 MPa, combined with excellent hardenability for high core strength and develops a hard wear resistant case after surface treatment. The alloy is produced by vacuum arc remelting. (VAR) Typical applications are gear shafts and crankshafts with maximum diameter of 70mm for the aircraft industry and automtovie components.
Read MoreBÖHLER V361 is a 3% Cr-Mo-V nitriding low-alloy steel of premium aircraft-quality, low-alloy steel offering a tensile strength of up to over 1350MPa in the form of bars, forgings, and forging stock. Due to the optimized production route via VIM-melting and VAR-remelting, the steel offers high impact strength and fatigue limit. It may be nitrided in the heat treated condition to obtain a wear resistant surface. It is used typically for nitrided parts such as bearings, operating under heavy loads and high speeds at moderate temperatures, and requiring highest surface hardness, high core toughness, and less distortion than parts made from case hardening steel, but usage is not limited to such applications.
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