Carbon Steel grades are rigorously evaluated to determine their exact properties to fit specific applications.
Carbon steels can have a lot of various grades that are suited for different applications for their varied range of featured properties.
Carbon steel can undergo heat treatments and has combined carbon and iron. Other elements are present in it but they do have just a little impact on its properties. Manganese, Copper, and silicon are the only other alloying elements that are allowed in plain-carbon steel.
Like other steels, carbon steel grades are also carefully selected and tested to acknowledge their certain properties for their application specification.
|CARBON STEEL GRADES||DESCRIPTION||APPLICATION|
|1018||mild (low carbon) steel, strong and ductile, has good weldability properties||crimping, bending, swaging, worms, pins, gears, dowels, tool holders, machine parts, pinions, ratchets, etc.|
|1020||suitable for surface hardening, can be case machined, hardened, and welded||hydraulic shafts, motor shafts, pump shafts, machinery parts|
|1030||high carbon steel, has moderate hardness and strength, machineable, ductile||machinery parts, used in the tempered and quenched condition for strength|
|1035||medium-carbon engineering steel, suitable for induction hardening and flame||used for forged parts, links, gears, couplings, forged shafts and axles|
|1040||has good strength, wear resistance, and toughness, machineable||forged couplings, and crankshafts|
|1045||medium carbon steel, can be forged satisfactorily, most common shafting steel||induction hardening applications, medium strength parts, shafts for pneumatic and hydraulic cylinders|
|1050||plain carbon steel, readily welded and machined||forged shafts and gears|
|1060||standard grade carbon steel||used for forged applications|
|1065||high-carbon steel, has high tensile strength, heat treatable||blades, and cutlery|
|1144||stressproof-equivalent steel, a higher-strength alloy than A36 and 1018, has improved ductility||used for parts requiring mechanical properties obtained by heat treating|
|11L14||free machining steel has enhanced machinability, stronger than 1018||used for forged applications|
|12L14||free machining steel has enhanced machinability, stronger than 1018||screw machines, couplings, inserts, bushings, and hydraulic hose fittings|