Crucible steel

Tiegelgussstahl, m. crucible cast steel, crucible steel, -giessen, n. casting of crucible steel. 

Barraclough, K. C., Steelmaking Before Bessemer, Vol. 2, Crucible Steel, The Metals Society, London, 1984, 87,299. 

Permanent Magnet Handbook, Crucible Steel Company of America. 

Present address Swedish Crucible Steel Co., Detroit, Mich. 48211... 

Srinivasan, S. (1994). Wootz crucible steel A newly discovered production site in South India. Papers from the Institute of Archaeology, 5, 49-59. 

For watch springs, a steel with better eveimess than produced by cementation was needed. A crucible steel technique, a remelting process, was developed. The small crucibles, holding 30-40 kg, were placed in a furnace heated by coke. 

Evans C (2007) Crucible steel as an enlightened material. Paper presented at Steel in Britain in the Age of Enlightenment, University of Glamorgan, 7/8 December, p 7... 

Developed by Battelle for RemCru (later called Crucible Steel) eis an intermediate-strength, weldable alloy, Ti-5Al-2.5Sn was first maniofactured in 1950. Its primary use was in applications requiring moderate strength and excellent weldability. It... 

Beta III was developed in the 1960s by Crucible Steel. This alloy was intended to supplement Ti-13V-llCr-3Al. It has excellent cold workability, heat treatability and mechanical properties, but it is very difficult to melt without molybdenum segregation. Crucible stopped making Beta III when they decreased their peuticipation in the titanium market. 

Ti-13V-llCr-3Al, developed by Rem Cru (later called Crucible Steel) in the mid-1950s, was the first alloy to stabilize the beta phase of titanium to room temperature. Thus Ti-13-11-3 for titanimn alloys is analogous to austenitic 18-8 stainless steel for iron alloys. Its primary use over the last decade has been for springs. 

Figure 1.5 Ulfberht swords, forged of crucible steel, were superior in performance to all other swords made during this period. Photo by Torana, shared on Creative Commons.

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