ASTM 420 Stainless Steel Bar 20Cr13 UNS42000 Forged Rod

Grade 420 stainless steel is a high-carbon steel with a minimum chromium content of 12%. Like any other stainless steel, grade 420 can also be hardened through heat treatment. It offers good ductility in its annealed state and excellent corrosion resistance properties when the metal is polished, surface grounded or hardened. This grade has the highest hardness - 50HRC - among all the stainless steel grades with 12% chromium.

Stainless steel grades that are similar to grade 420 stainless steels include martensitic steels such as the other versions of grade 420, having vanadium, sulphur and molybdenum in their composition, and the grade 440 series. Non-standard grade 420C has carbon content that is little higher than that of grade 420.

Martensitic stainless steels are ones with high hardness and high carbon content. These steels are generally fabricated using methods that require hardening and tempering treatments. The operating conditions of martensitic steels are affected by loss of material’s strength at high temperatures, and decrease in ductility at negative temperatures.

Key Properties

The following properties are mentioned for bar products in ASTM A276. The specification may not necessarily be similar for other forms, such as forgings and plate.

Composition

The compositional ranges of grade 420 stainless steels are given in following table:

Table 1 - Compositional ranges of grade 420 stainless steels

Specifications:

Production Inspection

Our heat treatment center with complete product testing equipment, for instance: the scanning electron micro sconezz(SEM).the transmission electron microscope(TEM)the material testing machine. the large-type metallurgical microscope,the endurance testing machine,the IAS-4 image analyzer, the American ARL direct- reading spectrometer, the American the electric ICP emission spectrometer, the American LECO infrared carbon sulfur analyzer, the hydrogen analyzer, the oxygen and nitrogen analyzer,the Swiss end harden ability tester, the German Zeiss inverted microscope, the Japanese CARTON stereo microscope, the 500J impact testing machine, the 500N hydraulic universal tester, the water immersion flaw detector, the radio element detector and so on.