Steel
Steel is an iron-based alloy found in every sphere of engineering. Whilst rich in interstitials in even its most basic forms, It is also easily alloyed with additional elements including Carbon, Chromium, Aluminium, and Nickel to increase its strength, reduce its weight, increase its corrosion resistance, or make it easier to join, form or shape.
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Steel Categories
Carbon steels, with small amounts of alloying elements such as lead, sulfur, and bismuth, are known as engineering steels or free-cutting steels. These grades have been specifically designed to exhibit good machining properties by forming small chips, extending tool life, or a combination of both...
Weathering steel is a form of steel with increased resistance to the effects of the elements by means of a protective outer layer, created with a specific composition of copper and nickel, with chromium, silicon, manganese and phosphorous additions. These elements create a compound which allows the steel...
Ferritic stainless steels are alloys that feature high chromium and very low carbon as their primary alloying elements, with no nickel present. They begin life in the austenitic state and are then subsequently heated and cooled to form a body-centred cubic ferritic structure - the BCC grain structure makes ferritic alloys...
Maraging steels are steels with 18% nickel as their primary strengthening element and either cobalt (C-alloys) or titanium (T-alloys) as their secondary alloying elements. The name derives from the substructure of the material and its subsequent treatment used to give this material its remarkable properties...
Austenitic stainless steels are iron-carbon alloys that have sufficient inclusions of austenite-stabilizing elements - nickel, manganese, and nitrogen - to create an austenitic substructure. 200 Series stainless steels use manganese and nitrogen to achieve their austenitic structure, whilst 300 Series...
Duplex stainless steels are alloys that have sufficient inclusions of austenite-stabilizing elements - carbon, copper, nickel, manganese, and nitrogen - and ferrite-stabilizing elements - chromium, silicon, molybdenum, tungsten, titanium & niobium to create a series of alloys that combine the excellent corrosion...
Structural Steels are steel grades that are manufactured to specific shapes and profiles, and to set tensile strengths, for structural use. Indeed the standard designations "S235, S275, and S355" are descriptive of this, where the "S" stands for "structural" and the following numbers signify the nominal yield strength...
Martensitic stainless steels are alloys that feature chromium and carbon as their primary alloying elements. They begin life in the austenitic state and are then subsequently hardened by heat treatment and quenching to form a distorted body-centred cubic martensitic structure. Molybdenum, vanadium...
Precipitation-Hardening Stainless Steels are stainless steel alloys that have been subjected to further heat treatment and quenching. Depending on the intended properties, these are formed as martensitic, semi-austenitic, and austenitic alloys, with the variation occurring via either their original composition, the...
Steel Shapes
Integ Metals supply metals and materials directly to industry. To this end, we have listed the eight most frequently supplied to industries on this page, for the purpose of offering our solutions to each industry. Thereafter you will find the industries, explainations of what their unique demands are, and then outlines of the Pros, Cons and Uses for each of the six most requested materials and their role within the selected industry.
Steel in Industry
Integ Metals supply metals and materials directly to industry. For this purpose, we have listed the eight most frequently supplied to industries on this page, with the purpose of offering our solutions to each industry. Thereafter, we have taken the liberty of introducing the industries, explained what their unique demands are, and then outlined the Pros, Cons and Uses for each of the most requested materials and their role within the selected industry.