Think of catching a baseball. If you make your hand stiff to catch the ball, the impact of the ball can cause damage. But if you loosen your hand to catch the ball, the impact of the catch isn’t as severe.

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ENDURA Steel from Titus Steel is a unique work hardening steel that can handle wear eight times more than mild steel. ENDURA starts off as a relatively low hardness steel but can work harden to a very high hardness steel.

Due to the process of heat treatment and quenching in oil rather than water, the microstructure of this steel is very homogeneous and limited when it comes to tearing, shearing, and gouging. It’s helpful to think of ENDURA’s microstructure as a row of pick-up sticks neatly laying next to one another, rather than mixed up in a pile.

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This is how the TRIP Effect of ENDURA Steel works when rocks, gravel, and other abrasive materials crash into the metal, and why it outlasts all the other wear steels.

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Work hardened steel is commonly used in various applications, including mining chutes, conveyors, grizzlies, screens, bucket lips, and components requiring both strength and ductility. Moreover, this type of steel is also used for the heading of bolts and cap screws, and for the finishing of cold rolled steel.

This process involves subjecting the steel to plastic deformation such as bending, rolling, or hammering, which causes its crystal structure to change in a way that increases its hardness and strength. The more the steel is “hit” or “impacted,” the harder it becomes. Some work hardening steels are heat treated to a specific hardness before they are put into service.

When it comes to work hardening steel, which is also known as strain hardening steel or cold worked steel, this refers to a type of steel that becomes stronger and tougher through mechanical deformation rather than heat treatment.

In general, work hardening is the strengthening of a material or polymer by plastic deformation. This strengthening happens because of dislocation movements and dislocation generation inside the crystal structure of the material.

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Contact Titus Steel today to learn more about ENDURA Steel – a unique, easy-to-process work hardening steel with a homogeneous microstructure, the TRIP Effect, and the ability to work harden into an extremely strong and tough material.

INDUSTEEL, a steel producer distributed by Titus Steel in Canada, has developed a revolutionary metallurgical phenomenon known as the TRIP (Transformation Induced Plasticity) Effect, which is achieved by the spontaneous rearrangement of metallic atoms under stress.