Medium carbon steels

Without these advances in hard, strong materials based on abundant, and therefore low-cost iron ore, there could have been no industrial revolution in the nineteenth century. Long bridges, sky-scraper buildings, steamships, railways, and more, needed pearlitic steel (low carbon) for their construction. Efficient steam engines, internal combustion engines, turbines, locomotives, various kinds of machine tools, and the like, became effective only when key components of them could be constructed of martensitic steels (medium carbon). 

Cast irons High-carbon steels Medium-carbon steels ----Low-carbon ("mild") steels... 

Strong steels (medium carbon) Water (1200 MPa) Chlorides (800 MPa) Low Low Intergranular... 

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The base material. Is it a low-carbon steel, medium-carbon steel, low-alloy steel, a nonferrous alloy, and so forth ... 

Conunon base metals include cast iron, low-carbon steel, medium-carbon steel, alloy steel (including tool and bearing steels), stainless steel (austenitic, martensitic, or ferritic), aluminum alloys, titanium alloys or other nonferrous metals, for example, bronzes, copper, and brasses. 

Refined Ferromanganese. Refined ferromanganese refers to alloys that are not carbon saturated and range from less than 0.10 to 1.50% maximum carbon. Medium carbon grades are used in special grades of steels where in final additions carbon control is important. The low carbon grades are used mainly in the production of certain grades of stainless steels. 

Carbon Steels and Low—Medium Alloy Steels. Plain carbon steels, the most common cutting tool materials of the nineteenth century, were replaced by low—medium alloy steels at the turn of that century because of the need for increased machining productivity in many appHcations. Low—medium carbon steels have since then been largely superseded by other tool materials, except for some low speed appHcations. 

Medium-carbon steel Fe + 0.3 to 0.7 C Medium-stress uses machinery ports - nuts and... 

CLOSED DIE FORGING PROCESS CAPABILITY MAP FOR LOW TO MEDIUM CARBON AND LOW ALLOY STEELS... 

Shafts are made of material ranging from medium carbon to low alloy steel and are usually heat treated. Shafts were originally made of forgings for the compressors in process service. But because of the availability ot high quality material, hot rolled bar stock has been used for shafts up to S inches in diameter. Bar stock shafts are given the same heat treatment and quality control as forgings. Many of the process users prefer a low alloy, chrome-moly-nickel material for shafting, particularly for compressors in critical service. 

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The mechanical properties of low- or medium-carbon structural steels can be improved considerably by small alloy additions. For example, 1% of chromium will raise the yield point of 0.2% carbon steel from about 280MN/m to 390MN/m. This has led to the development of a range of so-called low-alloy steels with high tensile properties. A typical example is grade 817M40 (En 24), which contains 0.4% C, 0.2% Si, 0.6%, Mn, 1.2%, Cr, 0.3% Mo and 1.5% Ni. 

The scope of the term stainless steel has not been precisely defined, but for general purposes it may be considered to include alloys whose main constituent is iron but which also contain not less than 10% Cr. As with low-alloy steels, a distinction between low or medium carbon grades and high carbon grades must also be drawn, the latter being more in the nature of alloy cast irons. These are used mainly for oxidation resistance at high temperatures and for applications where abrasion resistance allied to a certain amount of corrosion resistance is required, and will not be considered in this section. 

The most common types of steels used in castings are carbon steels, which contain only carbon as the major alloying element. Carbon steels are classified by their carbon content into three groups low-carbon steel (C < 0.20%), medium-carbon steel (C = 0.20 to 0.50%), and high-carbon steel (C > 0.50%). Steel s hardness also depends upon the carbon content. 

Low-carbon cast steels have a carbon content less than 0.20% medium-carbon steels, 0.20 to 0.50% and high-carbon steels have in excess of 0.50% carbon. Ranges of other constituents are manganese, 0.50 to 1.00% silicon, 0.25 to 0.80% sulfur, 0.060% maximum and phosphorus, 0.050% maximum. 

FERROTITANIUM. An alloy composed principally of iron and titanium. used to add titanium to steel. It is often made from titanium scrap. Three classifications are available low, high, and medium carbon content. Furnished in various lump, crushed, and ground sizes. 

Niobium. By addition of amounts of up to lr niobium stabilizes chromium and stainless steels. Additions of only about 11,025 increase the yield point of medium-carbon steels by about 50 i without any loss of weldability. 

The Bessemer process, as important as it was, produced only one kind of steel, carbon steel. Carbon steel consists primarily of iron with varying amounts of carbon added to produce a variety of properties. Today, carbon steels come in various forms, known as high-carbon, medium-carbon, low-carbon, extra-low-carbon, and ultra-low-carbon steels, each with a characteristic amount of carbon, ranging from more than 0.5 percent carbon at the high end to less than 0.015 percent carbon at the low end. 

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