Josip Vinčić

Tailored Heat-Treatment Strategies for W360 Tool Steel Produced by Directed Energy Deposition

Laser-directed energy deposition (L-DED) was used to manufacture samples of the newly developed W360 hot-work tool steel from voestalpine Böhler Edelstahl. Various heat-treatment processes, including austenitising followed by air or water-quenching and tempering, as well as direc...