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High Wear Resistance Tungsten Alloys For Radiography Components
Xi'an Kefeng Powder Metallurgy Co., has involved in manufacturing the high tech materials like High Density and Strength Tungsten Alloy Refractory Metal products, technologies and development expertise for the high performance demands of the oil and gas drilling industry since year of 1999.
As one of the chinese leading producers of refractory metals such as tungsten, tungsten alloy WNiFe/WNiCu, WCu, molybdenum and pure tungsten,
Kefengs' tungsten alloys has become an essential material for a wide variety of applications including balance weights, radiation protection, vibration absorbers, heat transfer and drilling bars.
As a leading precision manufacturer of industrial radiography components, Xi'an Kefeng Powder Metallurgy Co., is ready to tackle your production. Your clients depend on you to assemble high-performance radiography equipment, and you can rely on us to provide accurate radiography components to match your exact specifications. The best machining process for you will depend on your order and may include:
- CNC Machining
- CNC Turning
- CNC Milling
- Laser Graving
Kefeng will work closely with you from initial quotes through final delivery. As your full-service manufacturing partner, our technical experts and machinists are at your disposal.
Industrial radiography is a way to perform non-destructive testing. It uses ionizing radiation to inspect materials and components, locating and quantifying defects or degradation in material that would lead to failure. Industrial gamma radiography uses gamma rays generated by the natural radioactivity of sealed radionuclide sources. It is also possible to perform tomography in nearly real time.
While industrial radiography is usually associated with medical applications, it is applicable to components across an extensive range of sectors. Our radiography components are used to perform a variety of jobs, such as:
- Inspecting welds and castings
- Food inspection
- Airport security checkpoints
- Evaluating nuclear test equipment
- Neclear shields
- X-ray Collimators
- Other types of radiation detectors
Properties
Its Mechanical properties are of tensile strength, ductility and hardness plus other elemental metals, create a family of tungsten alloy materials that have found wide acceptance where a concentrated mass is required in a limited space. Tungsten alloys guarantee the strength and stability needed for the tough oil and gas drilling process. Tungsten alloys are economically fabricated by powder metallurgy techniques and routinely machined by conventional methods. So it can be delivered both as a semi finished product for further processing by the customer or in accordance with the customer's drawing as a finished machined part.
Characteristics and features
As medical science developing, there is more and more radiation in our life, which has become a new trouble, such as X-ray radiation, gamma radiation (energetic electromagnetic radiation), radiation of alpha particles (helium atoms) beta particles (electrons) and cosmic radiation, etc. In order to protect patients and other people safe from harmful effects of ionizing radiation, such as breast cancer, skin cancer, etc. One type of excellent radiation-absorbing medium is badly needed.
Experts find that radiation exposure could be reduced by maxing shielding. The density of a material is related to its radiation stopping ability. Higher density means better stopping power and shielding. With a higher density, tungsten alloy has a greater protection than lead. It is greater linear attenuation of gamma radiations means that less is required for equal shielding. Alternatively equal amounts of tungsten alloy shielding provide diminished exposure risks than equivalent lead shielding.
- Can be machined to different shapes per customer drawings and requirements.
- Good corrosion resistance
- High radiation absorption (superior to lead)
- Simplified life cycle and high strength.
- Non-toxic material as a replacement to lead
Application
Tungsten alloy radiation shields are made to only allow radiation to go where it is actually needed. Our tungsten radiation shields guarantee that environmental radiation exposure is kept to an absolute minimum during the generation of X-ray radiation. A particularly dense material with excellent shielding properties is needed to ensure that the surrounding tissue is protected and the radiation guided only to the intended locations where those are widely used in Medical and Industrial Radiation Shielding.
There is no licensing required for tungsten alloy materials. Tungsten alloys are stable at high temperatures. You can use one-third less material than lead for the same energy-absorbing effectiveness and also it is non-toxic. You can use our high density tungsten alloys for shielding wherever radioactivity has to be controlled and directed. Xi'an Kefeng Powder Metallurgy Co., Ltd. specializes in producing tungsten radiation shields according to customer's drawing.
1. Shielding components for X-ray tubes
2. Shutter blades for computer tomography
3. Shielding elements for detectors
4. Isotope containers for brachytherapy
5. Shielding elements for linear accelerators
6. Radioactive source containers
7. Gamma ray protection
8. Source holders for oil-well, logging, and industrial instrumentation
9. Collimators and shielding for cancer therapy machines
10. Syringe protection for radioactive injections
Meantime, those high performance tungsten alloy shielding components are widely used in the following applications:
- Tungsten alloy radioactive source containers
- gamma radiation shielding made by tungsten alloy
- Shielding block of tungsten alloy
- Source holders for oil well logging and industrial instrumentation
- Tungsten alloy X-ray collimators
- Tungsten alloy PET syringe shield
- Shielding in cancer therapy machines
- Syringe protection for radioactive injections
- Tungsten alloy syringe shielding
- Nuclear shielding wall
- FDG container
- Inspect welds
- Nuclear testing equipment
- Nuclear power plant shielding
- Radiation shielding barrel
- Large container inspection devices
- Oncology Isotopic and accelerator based platforms
- Pipe-line inspection Gamma
- Defense for nuclear submarines
Technical parameters
Tungsten heavy alloy |
WNiFe (ASTM B777, AMS-T-21014) |
WNiCu (ASTM B777, AMS-T-21014) |
Designation |
90W |
93W |
95W |
97W |
90W |
93W |
95W |
Density g/cm3) |
16.85~17.30 |
17.15~17.85 |
17.75~18.35 |
18.25~18.85 |
16.85~17.30 |
17.17~17.85 |
17.75~18.35 |
Tensile Strength (MPa) |
758Min |
758Min |
724Min |
689Min |
648Min |
648Min |
684Min |
Elongation (%) |
5Min |
5Min |
3Min |
2Min |
2Min |
2Min |
1Min |
Hardness (HRC) |
32Max |
33Max |
34Max |
35Max |
32Max |
33Max |
34Max |
Yield strength(MPa) |
517Min |
517Min |
517Min |
517Min |
517Min |
517Min |
517Min |