The austenitic stainless steels are characterized by a unique combination of material properties. The austenitic stainless steels have found a wide application field because of the superior properties and many new applications are expected to arise in future.
These are the most important characteristics: high corrosion resistance, high ductility and impact resistance even at the lowest temperatures, good formability, high strength at elevated temperatures, good weldability and ease of cleaning. Some applications find use of the non-magnetic character or of the high strength achieved through coldworking due to a high strain hardening capability too.
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High strength temper rolled stainless steels (PDF)
Corrosion resistance of the stainless steels
Birth of Stainless (by an unknown writer ).
Milestones of the stainless steels
Md30-Temperatures (Nohara), Ferrite Number (FNA) and Pitting Resistance Equivalence (PRE)
Conversion of hardness numbers (HRB, HRT, HB, HV) for austenitic steels
Conversion of elongations for austenitic steels
Pitting corrosion resistance, diagrams for stainless
STEELYNX
>7500 links
Martindale's Calculators (Alloys - Metalls)
BSSA
British Stainless Steel Association
ISER
Informationstelle Edelstahl Rostfrei
MatWeb, the Free Online Materials Property Database
Usenet forum:
sci.engr.metallurgy
JAVA applets
for understanding thermodynamics
Antonio Gorni's free software
Outokumpu Stainless
ALZ
Euro-Inox
publications
KTN AG
Standards for stainless
A metallurgist colleaque
Antero Kyröläinen
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