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Welding Steel Alloys: Low-Carbon Steels

Steel alloys can be divided into five groups: carbon steels, high strength low alloy steels, quenched and tempered steels, heat treatable low alloy steels, and chromium-molybdenum steels. Carbon steels are classified as low-carbon containing up to 0.30% carbon, medium-carbon containing 0.30-0.60% carbon, or high-carbon containing 0.60-1.00% carbon. High strength low alloy steels are designed to provide better mechanical properties than carbon steels while maintaining good weldability and formability. When welding carbon and low alloy steels, welders should consider the carbon equivalent of the steel and risks

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Welding Steel Alloys: Low-Carbon Steels

Steel alloys can be divided into five groups: carbon steels, high strength low alloy steels, quenched and tempered steels, heat treatable low alloy steels, and chromium-molybdenum steels. Carbon steels are classified as low-carbon containing up to 0.30% carbon, medium-carbon containing 0.30-0.60% carbon, or high-carbon containing 0.60-1.00% carbon. High strength low alloy steels are designed to provide better mechanical properties than carbon steels while maintaining good weldability and formability. When welding carbon and low alloy steels, welders should consider the carbon equivalent of the steel and risks

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Welding Steel Alloys

Steel Alloys can be divided into five


groups

Carbon Steels

High Strength Low Alloy


Steels

Quenched and Tempered


Steels

Heat Treatable Low Alloy


Steels

Chromium-Molybdenum
Steels
Steels are readily available in
various product forms. To establish
a proper welding procedure it is
necessary to know the material
properties of the steel being
welded. The American Iron and
Steel Institute defines carbon steel
as follows:
Steel is considered to be carbon steel when no minimum content is
specified or required for chromium, cobalt, columbium [niobium],
molybdenum, nickel, titanium, tungsten, vanadium or zirconium, or any
other element to be added to obtain a desired alloying effect; when the
specified minimum for copper does not exceed 0.40 per cent; or when
the maximum content specified for any of the following elements does
not exceed the percentages noted: manganese 1.65, silicon 0.60,
copper 0.60. Carbon steels are normally classified as shown below.
Low-carbon steels contain up to 0.30 weight percent C. The largest
category of this class of steel is flat-rolled products (sheet or strip)
usually in the cold-rolled and annealed condition. The carbon content
for these high-formability steels is very low, less than 0.10 weight
percent C, with up to 0.4 weight percent Mn. For rolled steel structural
plates and sections, the carbon content may be increased to
approximately 0.30 weight percent, with higher manganese up to 1.5
weight percent.
Medium-carbon steels are similar to low-carbon steels except that the
carbon ranges from 0.30 to 0.60 weight percent and the manganese
from 0.60 to 1.65 weight percent. Increasing the carbon content to
approximately 0.5 weight percent with an accompanying increase in

manganese allows medium-carbon steels to be used in the quenched


and tempered condition.
High-carbon steels contain from 0.60 to 1.00 weight percent C with
manganese contents ranging from 0.30 to 0.90 weight percent.
High-strength low-alloy (HSLA) steels, or microalloyed steels, are
designed to provide better mechanical properties than conventional
carbon steels. They are designed to meet specific mechanical
properties rather than a chemical composition. The chemical
composition of a specific HSLA steel may vary for different product
thickness to meet mechanical property requirements. The HSLA steels
have low carbon contents (0.50 to ~0.25 weight percent C) in order to
produce adequate formability and weldability, and they have
manganese contents up to 2.0 weight percent. Small quantities of
chromium, nickel, molybdenum, copper, nitrogen, vanadium, niobium,
titanium, and zirconium are used in various combinations.
Below are some typical welding considerations when welding carbon
and low alloy steels

Carbon Equivalent of the Steel


Weld Cooling Rates
Solidification Cracking
Reheat Cracking
Lamellar Tearing
Hydrogen Cracking

If your company is experiencing these or other welding problems you


can retain AMC to improve your weld processing. Hire AMC to act as
your welding specialist.

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