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Lifetime Controlling Defects in Tool Steels

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Tool steels are defined as “any steel” that is “used to make tools for cutting, forming, or otherwise shaping a material into a part or component adapted to a definite use”. Despite this definition, large quantities of tool steels are also used for non-tool applications, e.g. for springs, engine parts, bearings and magnetic components, since they offer excellent mechanical properties. The earliest tool steels were plain carbon steels, and only because production processes and technologies improved, it was possible to develop more and more highly alloyed steels with better properties. The history of tool steels will be covered in the subsequent section of this thesis. Nowadays, most tool steels contain large quantities of alloying elements, which range from carbide forming elements like molybdenum, tungsten, vanadium, and chromium to others like manganese and cobalt. The purpose of the alloying elements in the tool steels is the improvement of the mechanical properties in order to meet the ever increasing service demands of these steels, and to provide better dimensional control during the applied heat treatments.

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Sohar, C.R. (2011). Introduction. In: Lifetime Controlling Defects in Tool Steels. Springer Theses. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21646-6_1

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