Ferritic Stainless Steel Sheets

Ferritic stainless steel grades.

Ferritic stainless steel sheets.

Ferritic stainless steel usually contains at least 12 chromium and is considered a straight chromium stainless steel. However ferritic stainless steel is great for restaurant and medical. With greater strength than carbon steels ferritics provide an advantage in many applications where thinner materials and reduced weight are necessary such as automotive emission control systems. Good formability especially at deep drawing applications not susceptible to stress corrosion cracking higher heat conductivity compared to austenitics rather low heat expansion coefficient supplied with a range of functional and aesthetic surface finishes contact paul export at.

Ferritic grades have high ductility and are easily formed but they do not retain their strength at high temperatures like austenitic stainless steel. To qualify as stainless steel fe base alloys must contain at least 10 5 cr. Ferritic stainless steels are classified in the 400 series usually with 10 to 30 chromium content and are often chosen for their excellent corrosion resistance and elevated temperature oxidation resistance. A ferritic stainless steel owes its magnetism to two factors.

The most commonly used ferritic steels are found in group 2. They have a higher chromium content and are consequently more resistant to corrosion by nitric acids sulfur gases and many organic and food acids. The polished side is covered with a protective peel off film. The iron chromium phase diagram shows that up to about 13 cr the steel undergoes successive transformations upon cooling from the liquid phase from ferritic α phase to austenitic γ phase and back to α.

The rest of the makeup is defined by various alloying elements which control the microstructure of the alloy. Manufacturer of ferritic stainless steel astm a410 s41000 1 4006 stainless steel sheets astm a431 1 4057 s43100 stainless steel sheets astm 420j1 sus420j1 1 4021 stainless steel sheets and astm 442 s44200 stainless steel sheets offered by aesteiron steels llp mumbai maharashtra. Its high concentration of iron and its fundamental structure. Use 430 stainless steel in decorative and light structural applications rather than outdoors or in extreme temperatures.

All stainless steels are iron based alloys containing at least 10 5 chromium. One side of these sheets is polished to a brushed 3 finish with grain lines running in one direction to mask fingerprints. Both 304 and 316 stainless steels are austenitic when they cool the iron remains in the form of austenite gamma iron a phase of iron which is nonmagnetic. As a result it was found that by using a stainless steel sheet comprising high aluminum ferritic stainless steel containing over 2 5mass al it is possible to control the difference between the average linear expansion coefficients of the proposed stainless steel sheet and crystallized glass for a weight sensor in a temperature range from 20 c to 900 c.