SUPERIOR

SOLUTIONS MADE
OF WEAR-RESISTANT
STEEL
For the machinery industry

Martin Klein, Materials specialist

voestalpine Steel Division

www.voestalpine.com/durostat
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SUPERIOR SOLU-
TIONS MADE OF
WEAR-RESISTANT
STEEL
Highest wear resistance and hardness for the
highest stresses

Just like a diamond, our durostat® steels stand for highest hardness. This
special property of our durostat® steels is the reason for their essentially higher
resistance to wear than conventional steels. They are optimally suited to
applications with high mechanical stress and high levels of abrasion. Our
durostat® steels also guarantee excellent toughness at low application
temperatures.

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Find out more about wear-resistant

steel by visiting us at
www.voestalpine.com/durostat

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SEE FOR YOURSELF
WHAT durostat®
IS CAPABLE OF
For a longer service life
and higher weight savings

Service life of durostat® Weight savings with durostat®

years

weight

durostat® conventional steel durostat® conventional steel

durostat® can be used in a wide variety of applications. We offer our customers On the following pages you will find
the highest quality standards, yet we continually define the limits of feasibility out more about durostat®, the wear-
and never lose sight of our partners‘ best performance. durostat® is a wear- resistant steel for machinery industry
resisting steel with excellent properties that have set new standards in wear and discover what added value
resistance and hardness. durostat® can bring to your business.

»» Truck tippers
»» Scrap containers
»» Wheel loader buckets
»» Dredgers
»» Chutes
»» truck superstructures
»» snow plows
»» loading equipment and
conveying machinery

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BEST PRODUCT
PROPERTIES
Our durostat® steel grades are setting new standards with their highest quality and in withstanding the

greatest stresses. They offer a wide variety of mechanical properties and stand for highest-quality process­

ing. The service life of your products is also decisively prolonged, and the weight significantly reduced.

Longer service life

We developed the durostat® product range in order to prolong the service life of your components in
abrasive environments. These steel grades have a significantly higher service life than conventional steels
and withstand the most stringent environments.

Weight savings
When compared to conventional construction steels, sheet thicknesses can be significantly reduced while
maintaining the same length of service life. This leads to lower dead weights and higher payloads, espe-
cially in automotive engineering.

High degree of hardness

Their high level of hardness is adjusted by means of accelerated cooling after hot rolling (direct hardening)
or conventional quenching. Direct hardening is preferred because this method improves toughness and
reduces scale formation.

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Very good cold formability
Our durostat® steel grades are best suited for cold forming, independently of whether the steel is direct-
hardened or non-hardened. This is achieved through a homogeneous, fine-grained structure as well as a
high degree of purity.

Good weldability
Our modern alloying strategies with optimized carbon equivalents guarantee good weldability, a factor

durostat® efficiency
that especially applies to direct-hardened durostat® steels. Preheating can be completely eliminated for
lower sheet thicknesses.

Excellent flatness
The outstanding flatness is achieved through precisely controlled rolling processes in combination with
modern leveling units. This is highly advantageous during cutting and further processing and achieves
optimized dimensional accuracy of the manufactured components.

Clean surface
A uniform layer of scale forms on the sheet surface following hot rolling in our process route. The natural
protective layer acts against corrosion during transport and can easily be removed through sand blasting.
Selected dimensions can be supplied with a pickled surface, which makes it possible to avoid descaling
prior to coating.
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PRODUCT RANGE
We developed the special durostat® steel grades in order to prolong the service life of components
used in abrasive environments. This service life lies significantly higher than that of conventional
steels. durostat® steels withstand the most stringent environments.

Hardness Yield strength Tensile strength

Tensile test Hardness guarantee Rp0.2 Rm
Brinell hardness Thickness Max. width Max. length Typical value value Typical value Typical value
[mm] [mm] [mm] [HB] [HB] [MPa] [MPa]

2.5 1,250
3.0 1,520
3.5 1,570 12,000 400 360 – 440 1,000 1,250
4.0 ≤ 6.0 1,620
durostat 400
> 6.0 ≤ 8.0

6.0 ≤ 12.0 2,500

12,000 400 360 – 440 1,000 1,250
> 12.0 ≤ 120.0 3,000

2.5 1,250
3.0 1,520
12,000 450 410 – 490 1,100 1,400
3.5 1,570
durostat 450 4.0 ≤ 6.0 1,620

6.0 ≤ 12.0 2,500

12,000 450 410 – 490 1,100 1,400
> 12.0 ≤ 70.0 3,000

3.0 ≤ 4.0
12,000 500 460 – 540 1,200 1,550
> 4.0 ≤ 6.0 1,500
durostat 500
8.0 ≤ 50.0 2,500 12,000 500 460 – 540 1,200 1,550

1.8 ≤ 15.0 1,620 12,000 500 1) - < 550 < 700

durostat B2
8.0 ≤ 50.0 2,500 18,700 500 1) - 400 650

durostat B4 1.5 ≤ 12.0 1,620 12,000 600 1) - < 600 < 800

1) Achievable hardness after quenching, supplied in non-hardened condition

Note
durostat 400 and durostat 450 are wear-resistant, direct-hardened carbon steels.
As a heavy plate, durostat 500 is a directly hardened or conventionally hardened steel. As a hot-rolled
strip, it is a directly hardened plain carbon steel.
durostat B2 and durostat B4 are supplied in non-hardened condition and are intended for heat treatment
after being processed at the customer.
The properties of the individual steel grades are described in the durostat® data sheets (heavy plate and
cut-to-length sheets made of hot-rolled strip)

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Depending on customer requirements, durostat® steel grades are supplied in direct-hardened or non-hardened
condition. For direct hardening heavy plates and hot rolled steel strip are accelerated cooled directly after hot rolling.
The desired hardness is adjusted to 400, 450 or 500 HB.

Edging radii Ri min. at 90° edging

Notch impact energy Av [Joule] Location of bending edge
Elongation [%] min. Typical value in direction of rolling
Typical value Test temperature of -40 °C (s = sheet thickness) Delivery condition
A5 longitudinal transverse longitudinal

10 40 3s 4s direct-hardened

50
10 3s 4s direct-hardened

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9 30 3s 4s direct-hardened

9 30 4s 5s direct-hardened

4s 5s direct-hardened

8 20 4s 5s direct-hardened / hardened

> 20 - - - non-hardened

20 - - - non-hardened

> 18 - - - non-hardened

cut-to-length sheets made of hot-rolled strip heavy plates upon request

NEW now!
durostat® tailor welded

durostat 500 is now also available as cut-to-length sheets made of hot-rolled strip.

More information:
www.voestalpine.com/durostat

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 MORE THAN
JUST A
QUALITY
PRODUCT
When solutions are in demand

We have been a reliable partner to the machinery industry for many years.

We offer innovative and sustainable product solutions and outstanding

welding expertise in addition to our full service for best-possible support and

process performance. State-of-the-art technologies in manu­fac­­turing and

processing help reduce your costs and provide a decisive competitive ad-

vantage for your operations.

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THE ADDED WITH THEIR GREAT INDUSTRY
VALUE EXPERTISE OUR voestalpine
TECHNICAL SUPPORT WILL BE
PLEASED TO ADVISE YOU.

durostat® service
Our own logistics company and well stocked warehouse of sample
parts in Linz make it possible to supply short-term sample deliveries
for welding and bending trials. We are in a position to quickly meet
your requirements and will supply small lots and cut shapes upon
request. Our voestalpine specialists will be happy to support you
with all of your concerns.

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durostat® efficiency
The material properties of our durostat® steel grades and state-
of-the-art quality plan eliminate revision work to the largest extent
and make it possible for you to begin immediately with your
production. This reduces any downtimes and increases your
productivity.

durostat® tailor welded

The steel sheets used in the production of trailers, tippers and
many other applications are becoming ever thinner and required
widths ever larger as time progresses, and component complexity
is increasing substantially. In an effort to meet these ever changing
requirements, we offer laser-welded and laser-hybrid-welded
sheets cut from hot-rolled strip. High-quality joints:

»» Thinner, wider, more wear-resistant sheets with excellent flatness

»» Different sheet thicknesses and/or material grades combined
in one component
»» Laser-welded and laser-hybrid-welded joints with perfect
properties
durostat® tailor welded

The information and product properties contained in this printed material are non-binding and serve the sole purpose of technical orientation. They do not replace individual
advisory services provided by our sales and customer service teams. The product information and characteristics set forth herein shall not be considered as guaranteed pro-
perties unless explicitly stipulated in a separate contractual agreement. For this reason, voestalpine shall not grant any warranty nor be held liable for properties and/or speci-
fications other than those subject to explicit agreement. This also applies to the suitability and applicability of products for certain applications as well as to the further proces-
sing of materials into final products. All application risks and suitability risks shall be borne by the customer. The General Terms of Sale for Goods and Services of the
voestalpine Steel Division shall apply to all materials supplied by the voestalpine Steel Division and can be accessed using the following link: www.voestalpine.com/stahl/en/
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Technical changes are reserved. Errors and misprints are excepted. No part of this publication may be reprinted without explicit written permission by voestalpine Stahl GmbH.
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voestalpine Steel Division

voestalpine-Straße 3
4020 Linz, Austria
T. +43 50304 15-72204
[email protected]
www.voestalpine.com/durostat