Stainless Steel Decking Screws: 10 Good Reasons to Buy Them!
Are your customers outdoor wood floor installers, on which it’s essential to be able to safely walk on barefoot? Do others ruin the screws breaking the heads while screwing them on the planks? The new stainless steel decking screws are the solution to your problems! Outdoor wood floor (decking screws): small details making the difference […]
What Are the Sources for Metallurgical Instabilities?
The metallurgical situation can be modified by various factors such as stress, time, temperature and environment. In fact, these elements can increase or decrease the resistance. Metallurgical instabilities – The instability sources What are the sources of metallurgical instability? There are many causes that may lead to instability, here we see some of them: Some […]
About the Fatigue Strength of Metals and Alloys.
In our today’s blog post about the fatigue strength of metals and alloys. Usually, this type of resistance is represented as S-N curves. Here the stress with the number of cycles to failure are related. High temperature fatigue Temperature has a significant effect. It is well known that an increase in temperature always results in […]
Industrial Steel 3D Printing. What Are the Possible Applications?
The use of 3D printing in industry has become increasingly frequent in recent years. For this type of printing is used different types of materials, and one of them is precisely the steel (of course in different formulations). You can create molds, drive pulleys for pumps or rotors for medical equipment. What materials are used […]
Stainless Steel Non-threaded Mechanical Fasteners.
In today’s blog post we want to introduce non-threaded mechanical fasteners, obviously made of stainless steel. What are these fasteners? And how to use them? What are the non-threaded mechanical fasteners? There are different types of fasteners. For example, the main ones are: How to use them? Matching two (or more) elements means preparing connections […]
Types of Thread – What Elements Characterize Them?
Usually, screws, bolts and nuts have single threads. However, there are double-threaded (or triple-threaded) components that provide an advance equal to twice (or three times) the pitch, respectively. It is possible to differentiate the various types of threads required by standards for the profile shape. The latter, in fact, are intended to fulfil functional requirements […]
Metal Dusting Corrosion for Stainless Steel
As mentioned in other posts, the metals corrosion is a real chemical reactions. Briefly, they are phenomena that cause slow material deterioration in contact with the external environment. Today we will talk specifically about metal dusting corrosion. What is metal dusting corrosion? These corrosion can stand out in the dry corrosion (at high temperatures and […]
Molybdenum – How It Is Being Used
In 1781 the Swedish chemist Peter Jacob Hjelm was able to isolate the molybdenum from its oxide. In fact, this element in nature is present in “molybdenite” usually in the form of sulfide MoS₂ (similar to graphite and lead sulphide). What is molybdenum? Molybdenum is defined a transition metal. What are its characteristics? Here is […]
Steels Designations – Here the AISI Standards
The AISI standard is one of the most popular methods of designation in the field of stainless steel. AISI stands for American Iron and Steel Institute; the latter is an association of North American steel producers. In today’s post we want to learn more about this designation system that allows the identification of types of […]
How to Use Duplex Stainless Steel?
Today we talk about duplex stainless steels. The latter are ferrous steels with a mixed crystalline grain structure of austenite and ferrite. How would you classify these steels? And what are their distinctive characteristics? What are two-phase steels? As mentioned earlier, the microstructure of duplex stainless steels (or two-phase) is called “hybrid”. This precisely because […]