B steel – quick summary
B is a(n)
iso specified steel
defined in ISO 3183:2012/AMD 1:2017 standard.
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Basic information
Chemical composition (B)
Use Case Information
Material groups (B)
Exact matches for B in API5L-95 standard
- Structural steel for welded ship bodies
- Plates and universals for shipbuilding
- Specification for Line Pipe
- Round spring steel wire
- patented cold drawn, unalloyed
- Fully killed steel
- Non-rimming steel
- FF
- Spring steel
- Structural steel for ships
- Hot Rolled Steel Plates, Strip, Sections and Bars
- Normal strength steel for ship and other structural applications
- Killed steel
- Aerospace - Performed flexible steel wire rope for aircraft controls
- Wire ropes for aircraft control
- Stainless Steel Wire
- Stainless steel
- Martensitic steel
- Petroleum and natural gas industries. Steel pipe for pipeline transportation systems
Matches for B in any standard defining this steel grade
Usual delivery conditions/forms (B)
Exact matches for B in API5L-95 standard
- As rolled
- Normalised rolled
- Thermomechanically rolled
- Thermomechanically formed (+M)
- Normalized formed (+N)
- Normalized (+N)
- Normalized and tempered (+NT)
Matches for B in any standard defining this steel grade
Typical applications (B)
Exact matches for B in API5L-95 standard
- Sheet
- Plate
- Wide flats
- Wide strip
- Universal mill plate
- Seamless tube
- Seamless pipe
- Smls. pipe
- Welded tube
- Welded pipe
- Wld. pipe
- Cold expanded pipe
- Nonexpanded pipe
- Tubes for the petroleum processing industry
- Tubes for the gas processing industry
- Wire
- Coil spring
- Spiral spring
- Helical spring
- Tension spring
- Draw spring
- Compression spring
- Plate, hot rolled [P]
- Strip
- Section steel
- Shaped section
- Steel bar
- Structural elements in shipbuilding
- Surgical instruments
- steel pipe for pipeline transportation systems
- Pipelines
Matches for B in any standard defining this steel grade
Mechanical properties (B) - available in several states, such as
Exact matches for B in API5L-95 standard
- normalized
- controlled rolled
- thermomechanical controlled rolled
- heat-treated
- patented cold drawn
- rolled
- as rolled (+AR)
- normalised rolled
- thermomechanically rolled
- thermomechanically formed (+M)
- normalized formed (+N)
- normalized (+N)
- normalized and tempered (+NT)
Matches for B in any standard defining this steel grade
Heat treatment information (B) – available instructions for many scenarios, such as
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