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Money Saving Tips:
Forged Ring Solutions
 Forged Ring Solutions
PROBLEM:   SOLUTION:

Flame cutting a ring from plate is not always viable or economical when meeting material requirements.
A custom forged ring allows greater versatility and improved quality while reducing material cost.
  • When flame cutting, all corner stock and the full center slug is lost even though you pay for it.
Flame Cutting
  • As desired thickness of the ring increases, availability of plate sizes and grades drastically decreases.
  • Uni-directional grain flow of plate increases susceptibility of ring to fatigue failure.
Uni-directional Grain Flow
  • The forging process moves and shapes material to ordered ring size with minimal material waste.
Forging Process
  • Required ring thickness has no effect on the virtually limitless combinations of sizes and grades available.
  • The porosity and laminations sometimes encountered in plate is eliminated with a custom forged ring.
  • Contoured grain flow within forged ring yields optimum combination of strength, toughness and fatigue resistance.
Contoured Grain Flow
Forging allows size variety and material savings
 

Ring
Material
4340

Finished Size
46-5/8" O.D. X 26-1/4" I.D. X
6-5/8" Face

Material Needed to Produce
Forging = 2,925 lbs.
Plate = 5,090 lbs.

Ring
Material
1021

Finished Size
22-5/8" O.D. X 17" I.D. X 9" Face

Material Needed to Produce
Forging =700 lbs.
Plate = 1,580 lbs.

Ring
Material
1045

Finished Size
52-1/4" O.D. X 19-3/4" I.D. X 31" Face

Material Needed to Produce
Forging = 19,500 lbs.
Plate = Unavailable at this thickness
43% MATERIAL SAVINGS
  
56% MATERIAL SAVINGS
    
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