Cast steel is raw material for cast pieces from steel (contrary to cast pieces from cast irons).

Cast steel is substantially more fastidious when pouring than cast irons. The casting temperature is higher (around the 1600 "°C) and shrink is twice as large. Therefore more expensive mechanism is and many more specialized knowledge necessarily than in has the products from cast steel better mechanical characteristics, cast steel is weldable duktil and (contrary to cast irons) in the steel foundries. All usual steel grades, also high-grade steels can be used.

Large pieces of cast steel can weigh several hundred tons, e.g. Housing for steam turbines.

To pour complicated parts from steel in a piece the Jacob Mayer born in Dunningen undertook the first successful attempts as a technical director of the Bochumer of association in the year 1841. Its procedure could it 1851 be patented.

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