Steel casting is a specialized form of  casting involving various types of steel. Steel castings are used when cast irons cannot deliver enough strength or shock resistance.

1. Compared with the free forging, die forging have precision size, less machining and a more reasonable distribution of fibrous tissue. All these advantages may enhance the service life of forging parts.
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Forging is the term for shaping metal by using localized compressive forces. Cold forging is done at room temperature or near room temperature. Hot Forging is done at a high temperature, which makes metal easier to shape and less likely to fracture. Warm forging is done at intermediate temperature between room temperature and hot forging temperatures. Forged parts can range in weight from less than a kilogram to 170 metric tons.  Forged parts usually require further processing to achieve a finished part.
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Casts can be made of the wax model itself, the direct method; or of a wax copy of a model that need not be of wax, the indirect method. The following steps are for the indirect process, which, in total, can take two days to one week to complete.

Combining Processes

The five basic forging processes are often combined to produce and refine the shapes necessary for finished products. For example to fashion a cross-peen hammer head, a smith would start with a bar roughly the diameter of the hammer face, the handle hole would be punched and drifted (widened by inserting or passing a larger tool through it), the head would be cut (punched, but with a wedge), the peen would be drawn to a wedge, and the face would be dressed by upsetting.

The equipment used in the drop forming process is commonly known as a power drop hammer. These may be powered by air, hydraulics, or mechanics. Depending on how the machine is powered, the mass of the ram, and the drop height, the striking force can be anywhere from 11,000 to 425,000 pounds. The tools that are used, dies and punches, come in many different shapes and sizes, as well as materials. Examples of these shapes are flat and v-shaped which are used for open-die forging, and single or multiple-impression dies used for closed die-forging. The designs for the dies have many aspects to them that must be considered. They all must be properly aligned, they must be designed so the metal and the flash will flow properly and fill all the grooves, and special considerations must be made for supporting webs and ribs and the parting line location. The materials must also be selected carefully. Some factors that go into the material selection are cost, their ability to harden, their ability to withstand high pressures, hot abrasion, heat cracking, and other such things. The most common materials used for the tools are carbon steel and, in some cases, stainless steel.

Press forging works slowly by applying continuous pressure or force, which differs from the near-instaneous impact of drop-hammer forging. The amount of time the dies are in contact with the workpiece is measured in seconds (as compared to the milliseconds of drop-hammer forges). The press forging operation can be done either cold or hot.