Uddeholm Caldie®
- Very good chipping and cracking resistance
- Good wear resistance
- High hardness (>60 HRC) after high temperature tempering
- Good dimensional stability in heat treatment and in service
- Excellent through-hardening properties
- Good machinability and grindability
- Excellent polishability
- Good surface treatment properties
- Good resistance to tempering back
- Very good WEDM properties
Applications
Uddeholm Caldie is suitable for short to medium run tooling where chipping and/or cracking are the predominant failure mechanisms and where a high compressive strength (hardness of over 60 HRC) is necessary. This makes Uddeholm Caldie an excellent problem solver for severe cold work applications where the combination of a hardness above 60 HRC and a high cracking resistance is of utmost importance e.g. as in the blanking and forming of ultra high strength steel sheets.
Uddeholm Caldie is also very suitable as a substrate steel for applications where surface coatings are desirable or necessary.
COLD WORK APPLICATIONS
- Blanking applications where high ductility and toughness are needed to prevent chipping/cracking
- Cold forging and forming operations where a high compressive strength combined with good resistance to chipping/cracking are necessary
- Machine knives
- Thread rolling dies
- Substrate for surface coatings
UDDEHOLM COMPONENT BUSINESS APPLICATIONS
Uddeholm Caldie can be used in engineering applications where high compressive strength has to be combined with high ductility/toughness. Knives for fragmentation of plastics and metals and roll forming rolls are good examples.
General Properties
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