Growth in the fast lane into the car with titanium

Titanium is a new structural and functional materials, it has excellent overall performance, density, high specific strength. Higher than the strength of the titanium alloy aluminum and steel, toughness and steel quite. Titanium and titanium alloy corrosion performance is good, better than stainless steel, particularly resistant to corrosion and micro-oxidizing atmosphere under chloride ion corrosion resistance in the marine atmosphere, a wide operating temperature titanium alloys, grade 2 titanium alloys at low temperature -253 ℃ but also to maintain good plasticity, and heat-resistant alloy operating temperature up to about 550 ℃, its heat resistance was significantly higher than that of aluminum and magnesium alloys, but also has good workability, weldability.
Titanium and titanium alloy Ti excellent performance since the industrial production on various tech industries much attention, along with the titanium industry started in the mid-1950s, titanium into the automotive industry. Into the 1990s, with the worldwide shortage of energy and people's awareness of environmental protection, especially in the automotive industry, the US, Japan and Europe and other countries have issued a series of ecological regulations, fuel rate, carbon dioxide emissions, vehicle weight, automobile safety, reliability and put forward higher requirements. Many developed countries and the famous car manufacturers are actively developing and increasing the use of Ti in terms of automotive investment, provided a powerful impetus for the car with titanium.
In the current automotive market, with luxury cars, sports cars and racing demand increases every year, Titanium components also increased year by year. 1990 Global Automotive titanium tubing is only about 50 tons / year in 1997 to 500 tons / year in 2002 to 1100 tons / year in 2009 to 3000 tons / year, next year will also maintain double-digit growth Thus, the automotive industry with titanium into accelerated growth phase.