Chapter 10: Heat Treatment of Tool Steels
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Published:2020
Abstract
The possible classification for tool steels is their division into four groups according to their final application: hot-worked, cold-worked, plastic mold, and high-speed tool steels. This chapter mainly follows such division by application, but the grade nomenclatures used here are primarily from AISI. It presents the classification of tool steels and discusses the principles and processes of tool steel heat treating, namely normalizing, annealing, hardening, and tempering. Various factors associated with distortion in several tool steels are also covered. The chapter discusses the composition, classification, and properties of unalloyed and low-alloy cold-worked tool steels; medium and high-alloy cold-worked tool steels; and 18% nickel maraging steels.
Heat Treatment of Tool Steels, Practical Heat Treating: Basic Principles, By Jon L. Dossett, ASM International, 2020, p 285–330, https://doi.org/10.31399/asm.tb.phtbp.t59310285
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