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Uddeholm Vanadis® 6

Generic Family: Steel - Powder Metal - Tool SteelSupplied by: Uddeholms AB
General
Uddeholm Vanadis 6 is a chromium-molybdenum-vanadium alloyed PM steel which is characterized by:
  • very high abrasive-adhesive wear resistance
  • high compressive strength
  • good toughness
  • very good dimensional stability at heat treatment and in service
  • very good through-hardening properties
  • good resistance to tempering back
  • high cleanliness.

Applications
Uddeholm Vanadis 6 is suitable for long run tooling of work materials where mixed (abrasive-adhesive) or abrasive wear and/or chipping/cracking and/or plastic deformation are dominating failure mechanisms.
Examples
  • Blanking and fine blanking of harder work materials
  • Forming operations where a high compressive strength is essential
  • Powder compacting
  • Substrate steel for surface coating
  • Plastics moulds and tooling subjected to abrasive wear conditions
  • Knives
General Properties

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Material Status
Commercial: Active
Documents
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Technical Datasheet (English)

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Availability
Africa & Middle East, Europe, Latin America
Other Properties
Metal Type, Type Analysis, Density, Hardness, Tensile Modulus, Mean Specific Heat, Mean CTE, Thermal Conductivity
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Processing

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