Steels that can meet these requirements need to have both high strength and a high yield point. Steeltec’s high-strength and higher-strength steels are therefore ideal materials. At Steeltec we have the ability to carefully control the composition and properties of our steels – from the melt right through to the final product.
Anyone who has experienced being pushed back into the seat of their car when accelerating on the freeway, has got some idea of the forces acting on the vehicle’s drive train. The material from which the drive chain components are made has to be able to withstand these forces. But it can only do that within limits. Once its yield point has been reached, the material will start to deform. And if the applied stress is greater then the strength of the material, the steel will fracture. At Steeltec, we are able to extend these crucial limits in the steels that we produce.
Conventionally, the strength of a material can be increased by additional processing operations, such as hardening and annealing. With higher strength steels from Steeltec, there is no need for such additional processing stages as our steels already exhibit high strength in their as-delivered state. We can supply:
