Hardox® steel round bars are versatile, ready-to-use high-strength steel rods that combine strength, high toughness, good bendability and good weldability in an absolutely unique way. They deliver the same high performance you would expect from Hardox® steel across a variety of abrasion-resistant and wear-resistant applications.
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Hardox® round bars allow you to upgrade your steel quality in different heavy-wear applications such as agriculture, engineering and machining, mining, drilling and construction. These abrasion-resistant steel round bars are tested frequently in each batch and come with guaranteed properties, as all engineering steels require.
Why Hardox® round bar?
The special properties of Hardox® abrasion-resistant round bar offer great advantages to fabricators and manufacturers in a diverse range of wear-resistant tools and attachments.
HS Schoch uses Hardox® round bar to replace parts previously cut and shaped from steel plate. Now, the round bars are simply cut to length and welded in place. The benefits? Less time-consuming and costly. The round shape helps extend service life. There are no edges and the handled material slides more easily. No high-temp welding needed.
High-accuracy Hardox® steel round bars can be used in even more high-precision, tighter-tolerance applications as turned, ground and polished (TG&P) steel bars, thanks to renowned German machining center WSB.
For earthmoving and attachment manufacturer Cerapid, conventional steel was too soft, and harder steel grades tended to crack too easily. But Hardox® steel round bar was just right in its hydraulic quick couplers – hard enough to withstand abrasion and penetration, yet tough enough to resist cracking. See how they got hooked on Hardox® in their hydraulic quick couplers.
Hardox® abrasion-resistant round bars feature the same guaranteed properties as the trusted Hardox® wear plate. They come in two hardness levels: Hardox® 400 and Hardox® 500. Hardox® 400 is offered in diameters of 40–100 mm (1.575–3.937 in.) and Hardox® 500 in diameters of 40–160 mm (1.575–6.299 in.) Both round steel bars come in lengths up to 5,000 mm (196.85 in). The cleanliness and fatigue resistance of Hardox® steel round bars are comparable with ingot casted steel, combined with high strength and impact toughness.
Engineering components subjected to high stress levels are traditionally hardened by heat treatment. But this only affects the surface of the material and fails to penetrate down to the core. Hardox® round bars are hardened steel round bars that are delivered already through-hardened. The hardness is consistent from the surface right down to the core of the material.
Hardox® abrasion-resistant round bars can reach very tight tolerances. In cooperation with an expert machining center in Germany, we have succeeded in easily achieving tolerances of h11, h9 and f8 for the Hardox® 400 and 500 bars. This capability opens new opportunities for a wide range of applications using high-strength bright bar. Examples include axel, pin and coupling applications.
You might be considering buying conventional steel for rods, such as high-carbon steels like 42CrMo4V steel. These steels are an acceptable solution but can pose some serious limitations.
For one, you need an additional heat treatment to increase the bar’s strength, which usually results in an inconsistent hardness profile on the cross section. This will significantly impair the impact toughness levels, giving you a product whose quality you can’t rely on. And heat treatment is a costly, time-consuming process.
A rod mill is an application that requires significant wear resistance, as well as high crack resistance and toughness.
Hardox® round bars combine unique performance with exceptional weldability. Any conventional welding method can be used for welding Hardox® steel to other weldable steel.
1) Hardness [HBW] according to ISO 6506-1. Testing is performed for one heat treatment batch.
1) Test specimen position according to EN 10083.
The steel is grain refined. *) Intentional alloying elements.
More details are given in EN 10060.
The delivery condition is Q (Quenched). QT (Quenched and Tempered) are available upon request.
Delivery requirements can be found at www.ssab.com.
Welding, bending and machining
Recommendations can be found in SSABs brochures at www.hardox.com or consult Tech Support.
Hardox® Round bar is not intended for further heat treatment. It has obtained its mechanical properties by quenching and when necessary by means of subsequent tempering. The properties of the delivery condition cannot be retained after exposure to temperatures in excess of 250ºC.
Appropriate health and safety precautions must be taken when welding, cutting, grinding or otherwise working on this product. Grinding, especially of primer coated plates, may produce dust with a high particle concentration.
To satisfy our customers’ growing demand for Hardox® round bars, we have improved local availability in order to speed up deliveries. The most common dimensions of Hardox® round bars are stocked at 15 sales locations worldwide, making it easy to order production material and test samples. The local stocks can also be customized to provide certain dimensions. The central stock for Hardox® round bars is located in Antwerp, Belgium. The production stock is located in Sweden.
The map shows central and local stocks. For available dimensions and delivery conditions in your area, contact SSAB sales.
