ENDURA Steel

What Type of Wear Resistant Steel Do You Need?

There are three factors which determine how a wear resistant steel should be utilized. Hardness is a steel’s ability to withstand friction or wearing away by material sliding over its surface. Toughness is a steel’s ability to withstand impact or hitting. However, ideal hardness also requires ductility which allows the material to deform before cracking or breaking.

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The Importance of Pre-Heating Abrasion Resistant Steel Before Welding

All abrasion resistant steels require pre-heating before welding except ENDURA and ENDURA Dual with Titanium carbides. This involves heating the steel to a specific temperature before welding, in its entirety, or at a minimum in the area surrounding the weld joint.

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The Importance of Grain Direction When Forming Wear Resistant Steels

When working with any steel, but in particular wear resistant steels, it is imperative that you know the grain direction of the plate. A steel plate’s grain direction comes from the mill’s rolling process, which stretches the metallurgical structure of the material. The grains run parallel to the rolling direction.

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Everything You Need to Know about Endura Steel’s “TRIP EFFECT”

TRIP refers to “TRANSFORMATION INDUCED PLASTICITY” and is sometimes referred to as TRIP STEELS.  With TRIP, the steel undergoes a slow transformation when stress and/or deformation is applied to the steel. For example, in applications of severe impact abrasion.

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A High-Performance Wear and Impact Resistant Steel

ENDURA is a high-performance wear resistant steel, exhibiting a wear resistance 50% higher than conventional 500HB water quenched steel, combined with excellent weldability and very acceptable workability.

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What is a Steel Grizzly Screen?

A steel grizzly screen (sometimes referred to as a grizzly deck, a grizzly scalper, or a grizzly feeder) is a rugged heavy-duty type of screen that is placed just before the first crusher in a mine or quarry. It “sizes” the rocks that have been blasted from the mine or quarry so that the crushing machine (often a jaw crusher or cone crusher) is not fed oversized rocks it cannot handle or undersized “fines” which will slow production.

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How Quenching and Tempering Makes ENDURA a Superior Steel

In order to make steel harder, a common treatment is to Quench and Temper, a process that involves heating, rapid cooling, and re-heating the steel. However, while Quench and Temper is common, it is ENDURA’s unique take on this process that gives it its TRIP EFFECT properties.

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ENDURA, the only Patented Wear Resistant Steel

Wear Resistant Steels were developed to retard or slow down the destruction of mild steels, providing longer life, less downtime and maintenance of equipment that experiences wear from impact and/or sliding abrasion. For the most part, this was and still is accomplished by making the steels harder. But the harder the steel, the more brittle it becomes and it is less easy to machine or form into parts, shoots, conveyors, buckets, screens etc.

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Understanding Abrasion and Wear-Resistant Steel (AR Steel)

Not all steels are the same. In fact, there are over 3,500 different grades of steel, each encompassing unique physical, chemical, and mechanical properties to make them ‘custom-tailored’ to suit specific applications. Even within certain groups of steel like Abrasion and Wear-Resistant steels (AR steel) there are many different grades, each with different chemistry and mechanical properties that yield different performance.

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