ALTRA PROVIDES HIGH PERFORMANCE COUPLING SOLUTIONS FOR NAVIES AROUND THE WORLD
Modern navies are comprised of a wide variety of sophisticated vessels, including
aircraft carriers, destroyers, frigates, patrol boats and submarines. With more than
105 navies in the world, advanced battleforce and support ships continue to be
commissioned at a steady pace to meet multi-mission duties, including war fighting
and maritime security.
Recent developments in technology, including on-board gas turbine engines and
water-jet propulsion systems, have introduced even more demanding requirements
on marine drivetrain components. These technologies enable warships to operate
at very high speed in very shallow water while meeting or exceeding today’s
increasingly onerous mission demands.
ADVANCED ALTRA DISC AND DIAPHRAGM COUPLING TECHNOLOGIES
RISE TO THE CHALLENGES OF NAVAL PROPULSION APPLICATIONS
For decades, the Altra High Performance Coupling Group has designed and
manufactured highly engineered coupling solutions for many of the world’s navies.
Bibby Turboflex and Ameridrives are now leading global suppliers of couplings
for the naval/marine market. Altra couplings can be found on most of the nextgeneration
naval ships currently under construction at shipyards around the world.
CUSTOM COUPLINGS ARE OUR STANDARD
This 4.5m long engineered
Turboflex type 6HS-39-400
coupling is one of a pair,
designed to transmit 36MW of
power from twin on-board gas
turbines rotating at 3,300 rpm.
Backed by extensive experience, the engineering teams
at Bibby Turboflex and Ameridrives routinely develop
advanced Turboflex disc couplings and Ameriflex
diaphragm couplings to meet or exceed the challenging
requirements of all types of marine propulsion gas
turbines, including the very popular GE LM Series
Altra high-performance couplings are also designed and
manufactured to meet the requirements demanded by
all of the major international marine classification
societies, including ABS, DNV and Lloyds. .