Tool Steels Properties and Performance
This handy book provides a single, up-to-date source of information for increasing the life of tool steels through optimized design and manufacturing. Supplying a solid understanding of the metallurgy involved, the text explains how material compositions, manufacturing processes, heat treatments, surface hardening techniques, and coatings affect tool steel properties, grades, and performance. It also explores real-life case studies and failure analyses, offering examples of die-life parameters and hints for modifying tool steels and heat treatments during cutting or forming processes. While the book offers deep coverage of properties, microstructure, and manufacturing, its focus is on describing the performance of each application of this special class of ferrous materials.
- Provides a single, up-to-date source of information for increasing the life of tool steels through optimized design and manufacturing.
- Explains how material compositions, manufacturing processes, heat treatments, surface hardening techniques, and coatings affect tool steel properties, grades, and performance.
- Supplies a solid understanding of the metallurgy involved in tool steel manufacturing, machining, hot and cold working, and molding.
- Offers examples of die-life parameters and hints for modifying tool steels and heat treatments during cutting or forming processes.
- Includes real-life case studies and failure analyses from the Villares Metals plant in Brazil.
Introduction to Tool Steels. Manufacturing of Tool Steels. Physical Metallurgy of Tool Steels. Hot Work Tool Steels. Cold Work Tool Steels. Plastic Mold Tool Steels. High Speed Steels.
Dr. Rafael Agnelli Mesquita has worked for more than 15 years in the physical metallurgy of alloyed steels, mainly on the application of steels in different industrial field and in the development of new compositions. His career has been a blend of academia and industrial experiences: 12 years in the R&D and production technology of high alloy steels in Villares Metals (voestalpine Edelstahl branch in Brazil), 4 years as a professor in Brazilian universities (University of São Paulo and University Nove de Julho) and as visiting scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2011. To date, Dr. Mesquita has approximately 150 published papers and 10 product patents, most on the understanding, characterization and development of tool steels. He currently works in the USA under his own consulting firm, RAF Consult, and is mainly focused on niobium-bearing steels as a consultant of CBMM Technology.
Date de parution : 03-2021
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 11-2016
15.6x23.4 cm
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Mots-clés :
Tool Steels; Hot Work Tool Steels; Villares Metals; High Speed Steels; Tool Steel Failures; Cold Work Tool Steels; Tool Steel Case Studies; Plastic Mold Steels; Tool Steel Dies; High Speed Steel M2; Tool Steel Surface Hardening; D2 Tool Steel; Tool Steel Heat Treatments; MC Type Carbide; Tool Steel Forming; Undissolved Carbides; Tool Steel Cutting; Cold Work Steels; Tool Steel Coatings; Hot Work Steels; Tool Steel Nitriding; MC Carbide; Tool Steel Composition; Wear Resistance; Tool Steel Molding; Fresh Martensite; Tool Steel Cold Work; High Alloy Tool Steels; Tool Steel Hot Work; Carbide Distribution; Tool Steel Machining; Cr Rich M7C3 Carbides; Tool Steel Metallurgy; Nonmetallic Inclusions; Tool Steel Manufacturing; Forging Dies; Tool Steel Materials; Tempering Resistance; Tool Steel Design; Liquid Steel; Tool Steel Grades; Die Casting Dies; Tool Steel Properties; AISI P20; Tool Steel Performance; Austenitizing Temperature; Tool Steel Optimization; Subcritical Annealing; Tool Steel; ferrous materials; manufacturing and design of tool steel; metals processing; steel processing; steel manufacture; tool steel treatment; hot and cold working of tool steels