Manufacturing Technology 2021, 21(6):774-780 | DOI: 10.21062/mft.2021.098

Analysis of heat treatment parameters on the properties of selected tool steels M390 and M398 produced with powder metallurgy

Róbert Cíger, Igor Barényi ORCID..., Michal Krba»a ORCID...
Faculty of Special Technology, Alexander Dubcek University of Trencin. Ku kyselke 469, 911 06 Trencin. Slovakia

This paper deals with the comparison of two tool steels M390 and M398 produced by powder metallurgy of the MICROCLEAN type. The primary use of steel is in the plastics industry to produce screws for injection moulding machines. The main purpose of the paper is to analyze the hardness after different stages of heat treatment. The first part of the article evaluates the hardness of steels after hardening, which was performed using a hardening dilatometer DIL805A. A total of 8 different controlled cooling measurements were performed, for both types of powdered tool steels, from a maximum rate of 100 °C/s to a minimum of 0.01 ° C/s. Based on the results of the first set of samples from the hardening dilatometer, the optimal cooling time is evaluated to achieve the highest hardness of both materials. This rate was used to heat treat a second set of samples that had undergone a quenching process from which a selected group was quenched to -78 °C. Freezing was performed to reduce the amount of residual austenite. Before measuring the hardness, the samples were tempered at temperatures of 200, 400, 600 °C for 2x2h. The measured hardness values were then compared with data from the manufacturer BÖHLER.

Keywords: Powder metallurgy, Tool steel, M398, M390, Martensite
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This publication was created in the frame of the project: Advancement and support of R&D for “Centre for diagnostics and quality testing of materials“in the domains of the RIS3 SK specialization, ITMS2014+:313011W442, based on the Operational Programme Integrated Infrastructure  and funded from the European Regional Development Fund.

Received: September 28, 2021; Revised: December 31, 2021; Accepted: December 31, 2021; Prepublished online: January 3, 2022; Published: January 8, 2022  Show citation

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Cíger R, Barényi I, Krba»a M. Analysis of heat treatment parameters on the properties of selected tool steels M390 and M398 produced with powder metallurgy. Manufacturing Technology. 2021;21(6):774-780. doi: 10.21062/mft.2021.098.
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