US/EURO Steel chart?

JCaswell

JCaswell

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Does anyone know if there is a chart showing the US equivalent for European steel types?
 
There are cross reference tables in the "heat treaters guid" starting on page 888 and the "Metallic Materials Specification Handbook" has steels grouped together by composition, not really a cross reference but useful if you want to devote the time to going through it page by page.

Anything in specific you are trying to cross?

Jim Arbuckle
 
This is information for a machinist friend that's quoting work from Germany and England. They, of course, are often specifying materials according to their own nomenclature. That, and I suspect that the exact chemistry might be different in some cases, which would add in a whole new can of worms.

He also needs a guide to cross reference the different aluminum alloys.

The different jobs use different materials so it isn't just one or a handful of cross references he's looking for, but rather a guide that can be consulted as the need arises.
 
Remember that some of the "equivalent" steels are actually the "closest match" and may be significantly different !
 
Bite the bullet and buy yourself this book: http://www.stahlschluessel.de/en/handbook.html
Or check out this website: www.keytosteel.com

Many widely used steels are found worldwide. Others are more country specific.

There was thread recently where the composition of the US Grade O1 was talked about... a few people indicated that the alloy specification for "O1" in the the USA was so broard that it looked almost meaningless to me. In Germany O1 is known as 1.2510 and has a very definite alloy specification and content range. I haven't researched this any further because I don't buy O1 from the USA, but if I were to do so, I would be sure and check the exact alloy composition.

If you use the German materialy number system or the DIN system, you can be sure of the alloy you are getting. If you do work for EU clients, I believe they will expect the exact specified alloy to used for the job and not something that's just similiar.

The referrences I indicated above are one's you can rely on.
 
i tried to find some crossreferences myself (ss-en to aisi to euronorm etc) about a year or so ago without any luck (well if you dont want to buy books). however the most common steels like 01 etc seems to be easy to find. most steelmanufacturers use their own labeling, and steels comes and goes, so i can imagine even with books this will be very timeconsuming. i pretty much gave up, i came to the conclusion that its easier to just choose an appropriate quality and use that even if its not the exact chemical composition. in the future i will use easy to get (local) brands unless i can find "better" or just exactly what i "need" without to much work surfing the intarwebz. a good thing about this is you discover more interesting useful qualities you didnt even know existed. anyway good luck with your hunt, you probably gonna need it.
 
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