Tool Steel Ring Forgings Comprehensive Guide
Steel ring forgings are a type of material that comes in multiple varieties, possesses unique properties, and has a wide range of applications. Among them, tool steel ring forgings are one of the common types of steel ring forgings. They are mainly high-performance ring-shaped materials produced through the ring forging process using tool steel materials. At Songjie, we have many years of rich experience in professionally supplying tool steel forging rings and are able to provide you with a comprehensive analysis. This article will work with you to answer questions such as: What types of tool steel ring forgings are there? What are the properties of each type? And in which fields are they applicable?
Hot Work Tool Steel Ring Forgings
This kind of tool steel ring forging can still maintain high performance under high temperature and high pressure, and it is also an ideal choice for manufacturing hot forging dies, hot extrusion dies and other high-temperature working environments.
- Advantages: Excellent toughness and resistance to thermal shock, relatively high hardness and strength, good heat resistance, wear resistance, and resistance to thermal fatigue, etc.
- Commonly Used Hot Work Tool Steels: H10, H11, H13, 3Cr2W8V, 4Cr5MoSiV1, etc.
- Applications: Suitable for high-temperature working environments such as hot forging dies, die casting dies, hot rolling rolls, extrusion dies, etc.
- Customer Cases: The dies made of H11 steel ring forgings by our customers can withstand the impact force and friction force at high temperatures, ensuring the service life of the dies and the dimensional accuracy of the forgings. For example, in the production of various bolts and nuts in automobile engines, a large number of hot upset forging dies are required. Thanks to its good toughness and thermal fatigue performance, the H11 steel ring forgings can stably produce high-quality products.
Cold Work Tool Steel Ring Forgings
This forging is a ring-shaped part processed by the ring forging process using cold work tool steel. It is a key precision material in industrial manufacturing and has a wide range of applications in fields such as mold manufacturing and metal processing, playing an irreplaceable role.
- Advantages: Excellent fatigue resistance, good stability, extremely high hardness and wear resistance, good compressive strength and fatigue resistance, etc.
- Commonly Used Cold Work Tool Steels: D2, A2, Cr12, Cr12MoV, 9Mn2V, Cr12Mo1V1, SKD11, etc.
- Applications: This kind of tool steel ring forging is widely used in automobile manufacturing, electronic equipment manufacturing, aerospace, etc., and is suitable for manufacturing workpieces that need to withstand huge impacts and frictions, such as cold stamping dies, cold extrusion dies, wire drawing dies, shearing tools, cold rolling rolls, etc.
- Customer Cases: At Songjie, for some of our customers’ projects of manufacturing cold extrusion dies, such as for gears, shaft parts, etc., the cold extrusion dies are usually made of our SKD11 steel ring forgings. These dies can not only withstand extremely high pressure and friction force, but also ensure the service life of the dies and the precision of the extruded parts.
High-Speed Tool Steel Ring Forgings
High-speed tool steel ring forgings are renowned for their excellent thermal stability. They can maintain relatively high hardness and strength even in high-temperature environments and can work at high rotational speeds without deformation.
- Advantages: Excellent hardness, wear resistance, and high-temperature resistance, relatively high toughness, machinability, and impact resistance, etc.
- Commonly Used High-Speed Tool Steels: M2, M35, M42, T1, 9W18Cr4V, W6Mo5Cr4V3, etc.
- Applications: They are suitable for fields such as cutting tools, stamping dies, precision dies, and machining.
- Customer Cases: Customized M2 high-speed tool steel ring forgings by customers are often used to manufacture various milling cutters, such as end mills and slot drills.
Conclusion
In addition to the types mentioned above, we can also provide ring forgings for plastic molds, vanadium-nitrogen alloy tool steel ring forgings, special tool steel ring forgings, and so on. Our different types of tool steel forging rings are suitable for various fields, meeting your manufacturing needs for all kinds of tools and mechanical parts, and providing strong support for the development of all industries. Moreover, at Songjie, apart from tool steel ring forgings, our aluminum ring forgings also come in various types and possess excellent properties, satisfying all your requirements for forgings.