Definition of maraging steel in English:
maraging steel
nounˈmɑːreɪdʒɪŋˈmärˌājiNG ˌstēl
mass nounA steel alloy, containing up to 25 per cent nickel and other metals, strengthened by a process of slow cooling and age hardening.
Example sentencesExamples
- Marforming consists of deforming the maraging steel in the soft martensitic condition, generally cold.
- A qualitative description of ductile fracture has already been provided by Cox and Low who studied plastic fracture (fracture under local plastic strain) in AISI 4340 and 18Ni maraging steel.
- The Dutch government report found that in 1976, two Dutch firms exported to Pakistan 6,200 unfinished rotor tubes made of superstrong maraging steel.
- The faces on the Glider X irons are just one-tenth of an inch thick, and those on the Backfire are made from maraging steel.
- In that respect the substructure of maraging steel (as hardened) differs appreciably from that of aluminum, copper and other alloys which can be quenched without polymorphic change.
Origin
1960s: maraging from mar- (abbreviation of martensite, because the process involves conversion of austenite to martensite) + aging from the verb age.