High Performance Key Components for shipbuilding
High Performance Key Components for shipbuilding
Marine engineering & shipbuilding
Applications
Rudder mechanisms, drive systems, periscope and shaft tubes
Ranges of dimensions
- Outer diameter: min.: 80 mm, max.: 1,500 mm
- Inner diameter: min.: 55 mm
- Maximal cast weight: 3.3 t
- Maximal length: 8 m (welded construction)
Components
Rudder-shaft casings, liners, rudder-pintle casings, support rings, articulation rings, articulation bushes, stern tubes, shaft brackets, sleeves, seals, sealing bushes, bushings for bow thrusters, articulated rods for rudder mechanisms, shaft tubes for periscopes and antennas
Special requirements of the materials used
Steel with increased strength, toughness and corrosion-resistance properties, anti-magnetic stainless steels
Material groups
Duplex steels, corrosion-resistant martensite steels, austenitic anti-magnetic alloys
Materials
1.4470 ( 1.4462 ), J93371 ( 1.4460 ), 1.4340, J92615, 1.4405 ( 1.4418 ), 1.4059 ( 1.4057 ), 1.4138, 1.4085, 1.3967 ( 1.3964, ~ 1.3976 )*
* Materials listed in italics are those that consist of our material-matched forged alloys