Ferro‑Titanit® C‑Spezial: Ultra‑High Wear‑Resistant Titanium Carbide Steel

Ferro-Titanit® has a titanium carbide content of around 45% by volume, embedded in an alloyed steel binder phase. The materials combine the properties of steel and tungsten-carbide alloys and are highly wear-resistant.

Properties

General

Property	Value
Density	6.5 g/cm³
Grain structure	Titanium carbide + martensite

Mechanical

Property	Value
Compressive strength	3800 MPa
Elastic modulus	292 GPa
Flexural strength	1500 MPa
Hardness, Rockwell C	69 [-]
Shear modulus	117 GPa

Thermal

Property	Temperature	Value	Comment
Coefficient of thermal expansion	100 °C	9.2e-06 1/K	for 20°C to the mentioned temperature
	200 °C	9.1e-06 1/K	for 20°C to the mentioned temperature
	300 °C	9.8e-06 1/K	for 20°C to the mentioned temperature
Thermal conductivity		20.5 W/(m·K)

Electrical

Property	Value
Electrical resistivity	7.5e-07 Ω·m

Magnetic

Property	Value
Coercive force	5000 A/m
Remanence	0.315 T
Saturation polarization	0.92 T

Chemical properties

Property	Value	Comment
Carbon	0.65 %
Chromium	3 %
Iron	Balance
Molybdenum	3 %
Other	33 %	TiC

Technological properties

Property
Application areas	All cold work applications in cutting and forming engineering, e.g. for cutting and blanking tools, bending jaws, extrusion punches, deep-drawing dies, form and hobbing punches, clamping jaws, blanking sleeves, tools for the processing of steel, non-ferrous metals, aluminium, etc., as well as machine elements such as pulleys, rollers and guides exposed to heavy wear.
General machinability	In as-delivered condition, this material can be machined by conventional methods.
Heat Treatment	Soft annealing: 750°C,10 hr (Cooling in furnace) Hardness: 49 HRC - Stress-relief-annealing: 600-650°C (cooling in Furnace) - Hardening: 980-1100°C and quenching in vacuum (1 bar N2) - Temepering 150°C (Hardness:69 HRC)

Property

Application areas

All cold work applications in cutting and forming engineering, e.g. for cutting and blanking tools, bending jaws, extrusion punches, deep-drawing dies, form and hobbing punches, clamping jaws, blanking sleeves, tools for the processing of steel, non-ferrous metals, aluminium, etc., as well as machine elements such as pulleys, rollers and guides exposed to heavy wear.

General machinability

In as-delivered condition, this material can be machined by conventional methods.

Heat Treatment

Soft annealing: 750°C,10 hr (Cooling in furnace) Hardness: 49 HRC - Stress-relief-annealing: 600-650°C (cooling in Furnace) - Hardening: 980-1100°C and quenching in vacuum (1 bar N2) - Temepering 150°C (Hardness:69 HRC)

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