Article | REF: M4587 V2

Tool steels - Implementation

Author: Robert LÉVÊQUE

Publication date: June 10, 2013, Review date: November 25, 2020

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2. Criteria for use

For further details, we refer the reader to the documentation section of this article entitled "Employment criteria".

The properties required of a tool in service depend to a large extent on the conditions under which it is used and the temperature to which its active part can be heated:

  • in the case of cold forming processes such as cutting, stamping, rolling, extrusion forging, etc., the surface temperature of the tool generally does not exceed 200°C, and the properties required of the tool are essentially high hardness and toughness, compatible with good mechanical fatigue strength and high wear resistance;

  • when it comes to hot forming, which in practice occurs as soon as the temperature of the active part of the tool exceeds 300°C, the properties required of the tooling are high hot hardness...

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