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2550 60WCrV8

Chemical Composition :
C Si Mn P S Cr V W

Min. % 0.55 0.70 0.15 0.90 0.10 1.70

Max. % 0.65 1.00 0.45 0.030 0.030 1.20 0.20 2.20

Material Code :
DIN ASTM JIS GOST

1.2550 S1 - 6ChV2S
60WCrV8

Properties :
Oil hardenable, medium carbon with tungsten alloyed shock resistant cold work tool steel, high resistant to impacts
with excellent toughness and wear resistance, high fatigue strength, good edge-holding ability, high hardenability,
dimensional stability.

Applications :
Highly stressed applications, blanking dies for cutting sheets up to 12 mm thickness, heavy duty cold piercing punches,
cutting, punching and blanking tools for heavy plates, cold forming tools, tablet compression tools, shear blades for
cold and hot works, woodworking tools, chipping knives, shank tools for pneumatic equipment, deburring and coining
tools, hot work tools for low thermal stresses, ejectors, chopping blades and milling cutters, upsetting tools, flash trim-
ming and splitting dies, industrial knives, hot swaging dies, pneumatic chisels, solid embossing dies, cold and hot punch-
ing tools.

Physical Properties :
Density : at 20 °C 8,00 kg/dm3 Thermal expansion between : 20 °C and... °C, 10-6 m/(mK)

Thermal conductivity : at 20 °C 25,0 W/(m.K)

100 °C 200 °C 300 °C 400 °C 500 °C
11,0 12,5 13,0 13,5 14,0

Heat Treatment :
Annealing : 710 - 750 °C

Hardness after annealing : Max. 225 HB

Stress relieving : Approx. 650 °C

Hot forming : 1050 - 850 °C

Hardening : 870 - 910 °C

Quenching media : Oil

Hardness after quenching : 58 - 62 HRC

Hardness after tempering :

100 °C 200 °C 300 °C 400 °C
60 HRC 59 HRC 56 HRC 53 HRC

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 Heat Treatment Sequence
1000

900 Hardening

800

700
Preheat stage
Temperature, °C

600

500
Oil
400

Cooling in furnace Tempering to

300 working hardness

200

Air cooling
100
Stress relieving

0
Time Cleaning / Hardness test

Time - Temperature - Transformation Diagram Tempering Diagram

1200 70
Austenitizing 890 °C
1100 66

1000 62

900 58

Hardness, HRC
Ac1e
54
Temperature, °C

800
Ac1b
700 P 100 100
50
100 100
A+K 5
600 46

500 42
60WCrV8
400 38
Ms Zw Heat treatment :
300 34
2 90 94 910 °C / Oil
40
13
200 24
30
30
M 5 6 6
7
15 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800
300
100
Tempering temperature, °C
765 762 762 673 585 437 409 279 243 258

0
1 10 102 103 104 105 106

Seconds
1 10 100 1000 10000
Time Minutes

Stock Sizes
Round Bars mm
12.5 16.5 18.5 20.5 22.5 25.5 28.5 30.5 32.8 35.8 38.8 40.8 45.8 50.8 55.8
60.8 71 81 91