Overview of materials for Cold Work Steel

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Overview of materials for Cold Work Steel
Categories:	Metal; Ferrous Metal; Tool Steel; Cold Work Steel
Material Notes:	This property data is a summary of similar materials in the MatWeb database for the category "Cold Work Steel". Each property range of values reported is minimum and maximum values of appropriate MatWeb entries. The comments report the average value, and number of data points used to calculate the average. The values are not necessarily typical of any specific grade, especially less common values and those that can be most affected by additives or processing methods.
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Physical Properties	Original Value	Comments

Density	7.31 - 8.14 g/cc	Average value: 7.77 g/cc Grade Count:89
Particle Size	6.70 - 12.0 µm	Average value: 9.27 µm Grade Count:4

Mechanical Properties	Original Value	Comments
Hardness, Brinell	146 - 752	Average value: 263 Grade Count:25
Hardness, Knoop	537 - 850	Average value: 686 Grade Count:9
Hardness, Rockwell C	10.0 - 69.0	Average value: 57.8 Grade Count:55
Hardness, Vickers	200 - 819	Average value: 559 Grade Count:12
Tensile Strength, Ultimate	380 - 2380 MPa	Average value: 1060 MPa Grade Count:18
Tensile Strength, Yield	205 - 2100 MPa	Average value: 701 MPa Grade Count:16
Elongation at Break	0.000 - 30.0 %	Average value: 18.1 % Grade Count:16
Modulus of Elasticity	20.6 - 250 GPa	Average value: 204 GPa Grade Count:42
Flexural Yield Strength	2000 - 5500 MPa	Average value: 3870 MPa Grade Count:3
Compressive Yield Strength	480 - 3100 MPa	Average value: 2060 MPa Grade Count:17
Bulk Modulus	160 GPa	Average value: 160 GPa Grade Count:14
Poissons Ratio	0.280 - 0.300	Average value: 0.296 Grade Count:5
Machinability	50.0 - 125 %	Average value: 74.3 % Grade Count:17
Shear Modulus	58.5 - 82.0 GPa	Average value: 78.2 GPa Grade Count:15
Izod Impact Unnotched	24.4 - 163 J	Average value: 68.4 J Grade Count:9
Charpy Impact	10.8 - 38.0 J	Average value: 27.6 J Grade Count:3

Electrical Properties	Original Value	Comments
Electrical Resistivity	0.0000540 - 0.0000640 ohm-cm	Average value: 0.0000565 ohm-cm Grade Count:4

Thermal Properties	Original Value	Comments
CTE, linear	6.30 - 14.7 µm/m-°C	Average value: 12.1 µm/m-°C Grade Count:46
Specific Heat Capacity	0.418 - 0.460 J/g-°C	Average value: 0.453 J/g-°C Grade Count:25
Thermal Conductivity	14.0 - 32.0 W/m-K	Average value: 22.1 W/m-K Grade Count:25

Processing Properties	Original Value	Comments
Processing Temperature	150 - 1230 °C	Average value: 613 °C Grade Count:28
Annealing Temperature	343 - 900 °C	Average value: 794 °C Grade Count:35

Component Elements Properties	Original Value	Comments
Carbon, C	0.0500 - 2.90 %	Average value: 1.14 % Grade Count:98
Chromium, Cr	0.200 - 13.0 %	Average value: 5.54 % Grade Count:91
Cobalt, Co	1.00 - 10.5 %	Average value: 4.79 % Grade Count:7
Copper, Cu	0.250 %	Average value: 0.250 % Grade Count:11
Iron, Fe	63.0 - 99.1 %	Average value: 89.0 % Grade Count:98
Manganese, Mn	0.150 - 3.00 %	Average value: 0.761 % Grade Count:90
Molybdenum, Mo	0.200 - 7.00 %	Average value: 1.50 % Grade Count:78
Nickel, Ni	0.250 - 4.00 %	Average value: 0.798 % Grade Count:20
Phosphorus, P	0.0250 - 0.0350 %	Average value: 0.0292 % Grade Count:43
Silicon, Si	0.100 - 1.25 %	Average value: 0.573 % Grade Count:83
Sulfur, S	0.00500 - 0.0900 %	Average value: 0.0300 % Grade Count:45
Tungsten, W	0.500 - 6.75 %	Average value: 2.35 % Grade Count:28
Vanadium, V	0.100 - 10.3 %	Average value: 2.14 % Grade Count:62

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