ASTM A681 D2 Steel belongs to cold work mould steel with good hardenability. Type D2 steel is the most commonly used steel among the group D steels.
A681 D2 Chemical Composition(%)
| Carbon |
1.40～1.60 |
| Silicon |
0.10～0.60 |
| Manganese |
0.10～0.60 |
| Chromium |
11.0～13.0 |
| Molybdenum |
0.70～1.20 |
| Vanadium |
0.50～1.10 |
| Phosphorus |
≤0.030 |
| Sulfur |
≤0.030 |
D2 Applications: Rolls, punches, dies for blanking, forming, trimming, and thread rolling, shear knives, food-processing knives, and gauges. Deep drawing dies, cupping dies, forming dies, sheet metal forming rolls, shear blades for strip and sheet including flying shears, circular cutters for cold rolled strip, master tools, beading rools, wear parts, shear blades, trimmer dies, thread rolling dies, cold extrusion dies, broaches, plug gauges, ring gauges, special taps, straybolt taps, brick and tile mould liners, master hobs for cold hobbing plastic moulds and cut moulds for plastics.
D2 cold work mould steel is supplied in plates, round bars, square bars, flat bars and strips. All D2 mould steel products are free of heavy scale, deep pitting, laps, porosity, injurious segregation, excessive non-metallic inclusions,seams, cracks, checks, slivers, scale marks, dents, soft and hard spots, pipes, or any defects that would detrimentally affect the suitability of the material after removal of the recommended stock allowance.
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