Wear Resistant Steel

Steel is one of the most universally used building products because it is extremely affordable to make, it is very strong, and it is abundant in our society today. There are so many different types of steel and different things made with steel it is impossible to name them all, from the roads we drive on to the appliances inside our homes.

Steel has been around for thousands of years, first forged by blacksmiths in its original form as iron, and then refined in the mid-1800s with processes that made mass production easy and inexpensive. Over the years, steel has been refined further to become one of the most common materials that can be formed into almost anything you might need.

 

Wear-Resistant Steel

Because of its strength and durability, steel is used in many common industrial applications. While you cannot use the same steel for such large products as you would use to build a lightweight vehicle or small kitchen appliance, you can use a specialty product called wear-resistant steel, or abrasion-resistant steel.

This type of steel is designed to resist wear better than other different types of steel, so it is suited well for industries, machines, and uses where the products are likely to be subject to significant abrasive force or impact wear. This type of wear and tear on your machinery or your surfaces can cost you a lot of money in the long run, if you are required to continuously replace and repair your products due to abrasion or other forces.

Common Uses for Wear-Resistant Steel

There are many places where companies might need to use abrasion resistant steel, but some of the most common ways that it is used include the manufacture of heavy machinery, such as earth movers, mining operations, construction equipment, dump bodies, materials handling equipment, and crushing machines. You can also use it for construction of conveyors, chutes, liners, aggregate containers, and more.

Getting the Right Abrasion Resistant Steel

Most of the time when you buy this type of steel from a place like Wasatch Steel, it will come in as-rolled condition. It will often have hardening agents like carbon and manganese so it has increased durability, far above the standard durability that regular carbon steel would have. Fortunately despite its longer life and ability to resist wear much better than its more standard counterparts, the cost of this type of steel is often not much more than traditional steel grades.

Most abrasion resistant steel is measured in terms of its hardness, using the Brinnell Hardness Test (HB) or the Rockwell Test, and can range from 300HB-600HB depending on your specific application and needs. Fortunately even the wear-resistant steel with increased hardness levels still maintains much of its weldability.

When it comes to your operations, one of the most important thing is having equipment that works the way it should work, and minimizing the costs associated with regular maintenance, and the downtime that is caused by equipment that breaks down. When you need quality wear-resistant steel, come to Wasatch Steel to see our extensive selection.