Technical Handbooks
Technical Handbook of Stainless Steels (579.08 kb)Technical Handbook of Stainless Steels
This Technical Handbook has been produced as an aid to all personnel of Atlas Specialty Metals, their customers and the engineering community generally. It is intended to be both background reading for technical seminars conducted by Atlas Specialty Metals Technical Services Department, and also as a source of ongoing reference data. The topics covered in this document include:
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Grades & Families of Stainless Steels
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Corrosion Resistance
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High Temperature Resistance
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Cryogenic Properties
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Magnetic Properties
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Fabrication of Stainless Steels
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Heat Treatment
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Surface Finishing
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Surface Contamination in Fabrication
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Design Considerations in Fabrication
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Guidelines for Grade Selection
This handbook contains technical and practical information for engineering steel bar products. Topics include:
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Stock range
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Properties of steel grades compared
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Product datasheets for free machining, low alloy, case hardening, high tensile, stainless steel and aluminium machining steel bars
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Non destructive testing
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Heat treatment and surface treatment of steels
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Machinability and machinability datasheets
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Technical data e.g. dimensional tolerances, metric conversion charts and hardness conversion table.
