Advantages and disadvantages

The advantages of carbon steel plates are:
1. After heat treatment, the hardness and wear resistance can be improved.
2. When annealing, the hardness is appropriate and the cutting ability is good.
3. Its raw materials are very common, so it is easy to find, so the production cost is not high.
The disadvantages of carbon steel plates are:
1. His thermal hardness is not good. When used as a cutting tool material, if the temperature exceeds 200 degrees, the hardness and wear resistance will deteriorate.
2. His hardenability is poor. When water quenched, the diameter is usually maintained at 15 to 18 millimeters, while when not quenched, the diameter and thickness are usually 6 millimeters, making it prone to deformation or cracking.

Product Details

ASTM A283 plate steel features low and intermediate tensile strength carbon steel plate of structural quality. It has four common variants, each represented as a separate material. The material properties section below shows ranges encompassing all variants.

This specification covers four grades of carbon steel plates of structural quality for general application. Steel samples shall be melt processed by either open-hearth, basic-oxygen, or electric furnace. Heat and product analysis shall be performed wherein steel materials shall conform to required chemical compositions of carbon, manganese, phosphorus, sulfur, silicon, and copper. Steel specimens shall also undergo tensile tests and shall conform to required values of tensile strength, yield point, and elongation.

Product Parameters