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The Five Major Characteristics and Seven Major Uses of Titanium Tubes

Oct 30 , 2024

Titanium alloy tubes are tubes made of titanium alloy, featuring high mechanical properties, excellent stamping performance, and the ability to perform various forms of welding. The strength of welding joints can reach 90% of the strength of the base metal, and they also exhibit good machining performance. Titanium tubes have high corrosion resistance to chlorides, sulfides, and ammonia. Titanium's corrosion resistance in seawater surpasses that of aluminum alloys, stainless steel, and nickel-based alloys. It also exhibits strong water impact resistance. As a titanium tube supplier, Aulister plays an indispensable role in promoting technological advances and market expansion in this field.


Characteristics of Titanium Tubes


Titanium tubes have plasticity: high-purity titanium tubes can achieve an elongation of 50-60% and a reduction of area of 70-80%. Although high-purity titanium tubes have low strength, the addition of a small amount of impurities and alloying elements in industrial pure titanium can significantly enhance their mechanical properties, making their strength comparable to high-strength materials. This means that as long as industrial pure titanium tubes contain a small amount of interstitial impurities and other metal impurities, they can have both high strength and adequate plasticity.


  • High strength: The specific strength (strength-to-weight ratio) of industrial pure titanium tubes is very high among metal structural materials. Their strength is comparable to that of steel, but their weight is only 57% that of steel. Through strict material selection, processing, and quality control, titanium tube suppliers ensure the stable performance and exceptional quality of R04261 niobium titanium rods in this high-end product supply chain.

  • High heat resistance: Titanium tubes have strong heat resistance, maintaining good strength and stability even at 500°C in the atmosphere.

  • Low-temperature resistance: Titanium tubes also exhibit good low-temperature resistance, maintaining high impact strength even at ultra-low temperatures of -250°C, and can withstand high pressure and vibration.

  • Corrosion resistance: Titanium tubes have strong corrosion resistance due to their high affinity for oxygen, which allows them to form a dense oxide film on their surface, protecting the titanium from medium corrosion. As a result, titanium has excellent stability in acidic, alkaline, and neutral salt solutions, as well as in oxidizing media, outperforming stainless steel and other non-ferrous metals in terms of corrosion resistance.


Specific Applications of Titanium Tubes


Titanium tubes are lightweight, strong, and have excellent mechanical properties. Titanium tube suppliers continually invest in research and development, driving technological innovation in high-performance materials such as titanium tubes and niobium titanium rods. Titanium tubes are widely used in heat exchange equipment, including shell-and-tube heat exchangers, coil heat exchangers, serpentine heat exchangers, condensers, evaporators, and transportation pipelines. Specific applications include:


  • Chemical Industry: The variety of equipment has expanded from small and singular to large and diverse. According to the chemical industry, the application of titanium tube equipment has expanded from the initial soda and caustic soda industries to the entire chemical industry. The annual consumption of titanium tubes in the chemical industry is expected to exceed 1500 tons.

  • Petroleum Refining: Petroleum processing products and sulfides, chlorides, and other corrosive agents in cooling water severely corrode refining units, especially the condensation equipment at the top of atmospheric and vacuum distillation towers in the low-temperature light oil sections during petroleum refining. Equipment corrosion has become a prominent issue troubling the refining industry.

  • Automotive Industry: Titanium tubes have been used in racing cars for many years due to their light weight and high strength. These properties have long attracted the attention of automotive manufacturers. Currently, almost all racing cars use titanium tubing (handheld spectrometer). Japanese automotive use of titanium tubes exceeds 600 tons, and with the development of the global automotive industry, the use of titanium tubes in automobiles is rapidly increasing.

  • Sports Equipment: Titanium tubes' high strength, light weight, and corrosion resistance make them ideal for manufacturing high-quality iron rods, golf clubs, bicycle frames, and other sports equipment.

  • Medical Field: Titanium tubes' good biocompatibility and resistance to body rejection, combined with their excellent corrosion resistance and strength, are making them the material of choice in the medical field. Titanium tubes can be used to make artificial joints, dental implants, cranial repair materials, internal supports, and other medical devices.

  • Aerospace: Titanium tubes' excellent corrosion and oxidation resistance makes them suitable for producing various structures and components, such as engine parts, cylinders, landing gear, seat frames, oxygen bottles, and rocket seal structures.

  • Marine Engineering: In high-pressure environments in the deep ocean, the corrosion resistance of titanium tubes becomes an essential condition for marine engineering. They are widely used in the production of underwater pipelines, subsea oil wells, supporting structures for marine wind turbines, marine biological resource survey equipment, and more.


As one of the leading titanium tube suppliers, Aulister will continue to leverage its advantages in technological innovation, quality control, market expansion, and supply chain optimization to provide the highest performing solutions.