Material
Tool Steel D2 (1.2379)
Tool steel D2 ships annealed and machinable, and can then be hardened into one of the most widely used cold-work tool steels, prized for exceptional wear resistance, high compressive strength, and excellent dimensional stability.
Manufacturing processes
About
D2 (X153CrMoV12) is supplied annealed. Its high chromium content and vanadium addition form abundant hard carbides, giving it excellent wear resistance, dimensional stability, and high compressive strength once hardened. It's also a good base material for coating and nitriding treatments. Compared to D6, it offers better secondary hardenability but somewhat different toughness characteristics.
Tool steel D2 is suitable for blanking dies, punches, shear blades, and forming tools needing long service life under abrasive wear.
Technical Details
- Accuracy
- ±0.2% (lower limit of ±0.13 mm)
- Density
- 7.8 g/cm³
- Min. wall thickness
- -
Technical Properties
- Embossing
- min. 0.3 mm
- Engraving
- min. 0.3 mm
- Warping risk
- N/A