Full-Hard 205 Stainless Steel
Full-hard AISI 205 is AISI 205 stainless steel in the full-hard temper. It has the highest strength and lowest ductility compared to the other variants of AISI 205 stainless steel. The graph bars on the material properties cards below compare full-hard AISI 205 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
440
Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus
200 GPa 29 x 106 psi
Elongation at Break
11 %
Fatigue Strength
600 MPa 87 x 103 psi
Poisson's Ratio
0.28
Shear Modulus
77 GPa 11 x 106 psi
Shear Strength
850 MPa 120 x 103 psi
Tensile Strength: Ultimate (UTS)
1430 MPa 210 x 103 psi
Tensile Strength: Yield (Proof)
1100 MPa 160 x 103 psi
Thermal Properties
Latent Heat of Fusion
280 J/g
Maximum Temperature: Corrosion
410 °C 770 °F
Maximum Temperature: Mechanical
880 °C 1620 °F
Melting Completion (Liquidus)
1380 °C 2520 °F
Melting Onset (Solidus)
1340 °C 2440 °F
Specific Heat Capacity
480 J/kg-K 0.12 BTU/lb-°F
Thermal Expansion
18 µm/m-K
Otherwise Unclassified Properties
Base Metal Price
11 % relative
Density
7.6 g/cm3 470 lb/ft3
Embodied Carbon
2.6 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)
150 MJ/m3
Resilience: Unit (Modulus of Resilience)
3060 kJ/m3
Stiffness to Weight: Axial
14 points
Stiffness to Weight: Bending
26 points
Strength to Weight: Axial
52 points
Strength to Weight: Bending
37 points
Thermal Shock Resistance
29 points
Alloy Composition
| Fe | 62.6 to 68.1 | |
| Cr | 16.5 to 18.5 | |
| Mn | 14 to 15.5 | |
| Ni | 1.0 to 1.7 | |
| Si | 0 to 1.0 | |
| N | 0.32 to 0.4 | |
| C | 0.12 to 0.25 | |
| P | 0 to 0.060 | |
| S | 0 to 0.030 |
All values are % weight. Ranges represent what is permitted under applicable standards.
Followup Questions
Further Reading
ASTM A666: Standard Specification for Annealed or Cold-Worked Austenitic Stainless Steel Sheet, Strip, Plate, and Flat Bar
ASTM A959: Standard Guide for Specifying Harmonized Standard Grade Compositions for Wrought 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
Properties and Selection: Irons, Steels and High Performance Alloys, ASM Handbook vol. 1, ASM International, 1993
ASM Specialty Handbook: Stainless Steels, J. R. Davis (editor), 1994
Advances in Stainless Steels, Baldev Raj et al. (editors), 2010
CRC Materials Science and Engineering Handbook, 4th ed., James F. Shackelford et al. (editors), 2015