High Performance Steel for Series Tooling
Maraging steel has excellent mechanical properties and is easily heat-treatable using a simple thermal age-hardening process to obtain excellent hardness and strength. It's a hardenable steel with excellent machinability for many tooling applications.
Overview
Maraging Steel (MS1) is a steel powder that’s characterized by having excellent strength combined with high toughness. Parts are easily machinable after the building process and can by easily post-hardened to more than 50 HRC. This material is ideal for many tooling applications such as tools for injection molding, die casting of light metal alloys, punching, extrusion etc., and also for high performance industrial and engineering parts, for example in aerospace and motor racing applications.
Material Performance
Tensile Strength
1100±100 MPa (XY)
1100±100 MPa (Z)
Yield
Strength
1050±100 MPa (XY)
1000±100 MPa (Z)
Elongation
at Break
(10±4)% (XY)
(10±4)% (Z)
Material Highlights
Features
- Very high strength
- Easily machinable
- Hardenable up to 54 HRC
- Good thermal conductivity
Uses
- Series injection molding
- High volume production
- Tooling applications such as aluminum die casting
- High performance parts
Performance Scale
Material Colours
metal
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Technical Specifications
| Properties | As Built | After Age Hardening (at 490 °C) |
| Ultimate Tensile Strength | 1100±100 MPa (XY)
1100±100 MPa (Z) |
2050±100 MPa
|
| Yield Strength (Rp 0.2%) | 1050±100 MPa (XY)
1000±100 MPa (Z) |
1990±100 MPa
|
| Elongation at Break | (10±4)% (XY)
(10±4)% (Z) |
(4±2)%
|
| Modulus of Elasticity | 160±25 GPa (XY)
150±20 GPa (Z) |
180±20 GPa
|
| Hardness | 33-37 HV5 | 50-56 HRC |