Alloyed case hardening steel for the parts which require core tensile strength and high hardness. Susceptible to the large seized parts with high wearing resistance and loading such as: gears, screws, camshafts, bushings.
Steel adjusted for cutting with a cutting machine. The carburising temperature range can be higher than provided in the file (depending on the carburising process)
Steel adjusted for cutting with a cutting machine. The carburising temperature range can be higher than provided in the file (depending on the carburising process)
| C | Si | Mn | P | S | Cr | Mo | Ni | B |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0,15 - 0,21 | Max 0,40 | 0,50 - 0,90 | Max 0,025 | Max 0,035 | 1,50 - 1,80 | 0,25 - 0,35 | 1,40 - 1,70 | - |
| Hardness after | Symbol | Value | |
| Soft annealing (+A) | HB | ≤ 229 | |
| Heat treatment (carburising, quenching and tempering) (+QT) | HRC | ≥ 60 | |
| Ultimate tensile strength R m , after quenching and tempering at 200 °C: | |||
| Diameter, d, mm | d ≤ 16 | 16 < d ≤ 40 | 40 < d ≤ 100 |
| R m , MPa | 1160 | 1080 | 900 |
| Property | Unit | Value |
| Density, ρ | g·cm -3 | 7.85 |
| Technological treatment processes | Possible application | Temperature, °C | ||
| Hot forming | Forging | + | 1150 - 850 | |
| Rolling | + | 1150 - 850 | ||
| Thermochemical treatment | Carburising | + | 880 - 980 | |
| Carbonitriding | + | 860 - 950 | ||
| Heat treatment | Annealing | Normalising | + | 830 - 870 |
| Soft annealing | + | 650 - 700 | ||
| Heat treatment after carburising 1) | Core hardening | + | 830 - 870 | |
| Intermediate annealing | + | 630 - 650 | ||
| Case hardening | + | 780 - 820 | ||
| Tempering | + | 150 - 200 | ||
| 1) If possible, hardening has to be performed with the temperature equal or close to the heat treatment temperature | ||||
| ISO | CEN | Russia | |||
| ~18CrNiMo7 | ISO 683-11:1987 | 18CrNiMo7-6 | EN 10084:1998 | - | - |
| US | Japan | China | |||