Bainidur® 7980 CN

Bainidur® 7980 CN introduction

Bainidur® 7980 CN is specially designed for case hardening and carbo-nitriding. The steel is a lowalloyed steel with a bainitic structure at ambient temperature. Usually the hardness values are between 36 and 40 HRC.

Bainidur® 7980 CN is an optimum solution for a lot of applications regarding economic, mechanical properties and process stability. Fields of applications are gears especially for e-mobility with high torque or large gears in wind mills. The newly developed Bainidur® 7980 CN is characterized by the following properties:

Good processability with LPBF.
High strength and toughness.
Excellent case hardening and carbonitriding properties

Equivalent material: DIN 1.7980, DIN 18MnCrMoV4-8-7

Bainidur® 7980 CN general

Property Value
Density Density of 7.79 g/cm³

Bainidur® 7980 CN thermal

Property Value
Specific heat capacity Specific heat capacity of 460 J/(kg·K)
Thermal conductivity Thermal conductivity of 44.5 W/(m·K)

Bainidur® 7980 CN chemical

Property Value
Carbon Carbon of 0.12 - 0.22 %
Chromium Chromium of 1.8 - 2.5 %
Iron Balance
Manganese Manganese of 0.5 - 1.5 %
Molybdenum Molybdenum of 0.5 - 1.5 %
Silicon Silicon of 0.3 - 1 %
Vanadium Vanadium of 0.05 - 0.35 %

Bainidur® 7980 CN mechanical

Property Value
Charpy impact energy, V-notch Charpy impact energy, V-notch of 20 - 50 J
Elastic modulus Elastic modulus of 205 GPa
Hardness, Rockwell C Hardness, Rockwell C of 36 - 40 [-]
Tensile strength Tensile strength of 1000 - 1300 MPa
Yield strength Yield strength of 600 - 900 MPa

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