Content tagged with "wear-resistance"
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Article
February 9, 2010
Two processes sometimes are better than one
Figure 1
A cladding process Alabama Laser calls Alabama Laser Hot Wire, or ALHW, combines a solid-state laser with a wire heated by a gas metal arc welding power source (the laser head is out of the frame).
For years some cutting-edge fabrication technology has come out of the... Read more...
Article
September 13, 2005
AHSS Tooling Requires Greater Protection
Just as the coating on M&M's® breaks under pressure, tool coatings have a tough time standing up to the extreme pressure of advanced high-strength steel (AHSS) forming. Because AHSS requires twice the energy force to form ( Figure 1 ) and the tooling has less wear resistance but... Read more...
Article
March 8, 2005
Coating for stamping and forming tools
A technician mixes the TRD bath in preparation for coating. This high-temperature bath will be used to generate vanadium carbide coatings. A lot of confusion exists in the stamping and forming industries about tool coating processes. The most widely used coating processes are physical... Read more...
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