Tungsten Alloy Application – Military Industry

Tungsten alloy application in military industry is mainly for aerospace, weapon and nuclear industry. Tungsten alloy (WHA) is heavy metal with main content of tungsten 90~97%, and other elements, such as copper, nickel, iron, manganese, and molybdenum.

Besides, the customized content of 60%W, 70%W, 80%W, and other specials can be made beyond the standard of MIL T 21014, which is the most popular standard used around the world. The most regular chemical elements grades are tungsten nickel iron, tungsten nickel copper and tungsten molybdenum nickel iron.

The advantages of tungsten alloy are high density, high tensile strength, good shape ability, good radiation absorption ability, anti-corrosion and oxidization, good machinability, good electricity and thermal conductivity, low thermal expansion, good weld ability and coating.

With the advantages, WHA is widely applied in aerospace industry, including gyroscope, balancing weight, absorber, balancing weight of lifting control of aircraft and helicopters, the windweight of rudder, the balance weight of autopilot and steering bracket, the counterweight of aircraft engine, the nutation damping of satellite, etc. With the property of high density, the weight can be made with small volume and increasing space usage rate.

Tungsten alloy is also widely applied in the weapon industry, such as armor piercing projectile, warheads of bullets and aerial shells, core of rod kinetic energy armor piercing projectile, fragment, projectiles, weight of torpedoes, ships, tanks, etc. Military weapons are applied tungsten alloy as material because of its high density and environmental friendly.

Besides the application in aerospace and weapons, tungsten alloy can also be used in nuclear industry, which is applied to replace Pb to absorb X and r ray. Its shielding effect is 1.5 times more than Pb, which is the best material for nuclear fuel storage tank and shielding material. More details, please visit http://www.tungsten-alloy.com/en/alloy04.htm.

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