Cold Worked (+C900) 1.4020 Stainless Steel
EN 1.4020 +C900 steel is EN 1.4020 stainless steel in the cold worked (strain hardened) condition. The graph bars on the material properties cards below compare EN 1.4020 +C900 steel to: wrought austenitic stainless steels (top), all iron alloys (middle), and the entire database (bottom). A full bar means this is the highest value in the relevant set. A half-full bar means it's 50% of the highest, and so on.
Mechanical Properties
Brinell Hardness
300
Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus
200 GPa 29 x 106 psi
Elongation at Break
17 %
Fatigue Strength
520 MPa 76 x 103 psi
Poisson's Ratio
0.28
Shear Modulus
77 GPa 11 x 106 psi
Shear Strength
620 MPa 89 x 103 psi
Tensile Strength: Ultimate (UTS)
1000 MPa 150 x 103 psi
Tensile Strength: Yield (Proof)
860 MPa 120 x 103 psi
Thermal Properties
Latent Heat of Fusion
280 J/g
Maximum Temperature: Corrosion
410 °C 780 °F
Maximum Temperature: Mechanical
890 °C 1640 °F
Melting Completion (Liquidus)
1390 °C 2540 °F
Melting Onset (Solidus)
1350 °C 2460 °F
Specific Heat Capacity
480 J/kg-K 0.12 BTU/lb-°F
Thermal Expansion
17 µm/m-K
Otherwise Unclassified Properties
Base Metal Price
11 % relative
Density
7.6 g/cm3 480 lb/ft3
Embodied Carbon
2.5 kg CO2/kg material
Embodied Energy
37 MJ/kg 16 x 103 BTU/lb
Embodied Water
150 L/kg 18 gal/lb
Common Calculations
PREN (Pitting Resistance)
23
Resilience: Ultimate (Unit Rupture Work)
160 MJ/m3
Resilience: Unit (Modulus of Resilience)
1850 kJ/m3
Stiffness to Weight: Axial
14 points
Stiffness to Weight: Bending
25 points
Strength to Weight: Axial
36 points
Strength to Weight: Bending
29 points
Thermal Shock Resistance
21 points
Alloy Composition
| Fe | 62.8 to 71.8 | |
| Cr | 16.5 to 19 | |
| Mn | 11 to 14 | |
| Ni | 0.5 to 2.5 | |
| Si | 0 to 1.0 | |
| N | 0.2 to 0.45 | |
| C | 0 to 0.15 | |
| P | 0 to 0.045 | |
| S | 0 to 0.030 |
All values are % weight. Ranges represent what is permitted under applicable standards.
Followup Questions
Further Reading
EN 10088-3: Stainless steels - Part 3: Technical delivery conditions for semi-finished products, bars, rods, wire, sections and bright products of corrosion resisting steels for general purposes
Welding Metallurgy and Weldability of Stainless Steels, John C. Lippold and Damian J. Kotecki, 2005
EN 10088-1: Stainless steels - Part 1: List of stainless steels
Corrosion of Austenitic Stainless Steels: Mechanism, Mitigation and Monitoring, H. S. Khatak and B. Raj (editors), 2002
Austenitic Stainless Steels: Microstructure and Mechanical Properties, P. Marshall, 1984
Advances in Stainless Steels, Baldev Raj et al. (editors), 2010