The new alloy, TIMETAL(registered trademark) LCB3, has made more feasible for car manufacturers to use titanium than molybdenum to provide substantial weight savings and design advantages for mass-produced automobiles. It is specifically designed for automotive spring applications, which offers substantial weight savings and design advantages over steel. LCB is designed to use Mo and Fe as beta stabilizing elements, therefore less expensive master alloys for steel industries. The heat-treated LCB wires are able to be wound elastically to 1.5m ID coils, which can readily be fed into CNC spring winding machines used for steel wires without any major changes or extra operations. LCB suspension springs have been used for the Ferrari Challenge Stradale, which have proved that titanium springs can provide a design flexibility. Strengthening of titanium springs will make it more attractive to automotive design engineers and the cost reduction will widen its opportunities.


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    Title :

    Advance of beta titanium alloy TIMETAL(registered trademark) LCB in automotive spring applications


    Additional title:

    Vorteile der Beta-Titan-Legierung TIMETAL LCB für Fahrzeugfederungen


    Contributors:
    Kosaka, Yoji (author) / Faller, Kurt (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2006


    Size :

    7 Seiten, 13 Quellen



    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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