Category: ‘Carbon Steel’
High-alloy cast irons are an important group of materials whose production should be considered separately from that of the ordinary types of cast irons. In these cast iron alloys, alloy content is well above 4% and, consequently... Read More...
I used to wonder why 4130 steel tubing was ubiquitous in welded steel tube fuselages and other airplane parts. What with a lot of talk on the Bearhawk e-mail about welding, whether to stress relieving or not, etc, I decided to lo... Read More...
Maraging steels are a class of high-strength steel with a low carbon content and the use of substitutional (as opposed to interstitial) elements to produce hardening from formation of nickel martensites. The name maraging has ... Read More...
Elements may encourage formation of graphite from the carbide. Only a small proportion of these elements can be added to the steel before graphite forms destroying the properties of the steel, unless elements are added to c... Read More...