Stainless Steel

The other day, the bolts that held on my license plate had gotten rather rusty and I wanted to prevent the rust from staining the license plate (one of my pet peeves is a dirty car). Therefore, I took...

One of the first true superalloys was A286 super stainless steel which was developed in the 1930s. The superalloys of this era consisted of mostly iron or nickel base alloys with additions of chromium for oxidation resistance. However, with...

People often ask me what my favorite metal is. For that, I don’t really have an answer since I tend to think in terms of an application. However, I will say my favorite microstructure is that of duplex stainless...

Stainless steels come in a couple varieties including the typical austenitic corrosion resistant stainless steels (CRES), ferritic stainless steels, duplex stainless steels, precipitation hardened, and martensitic stainless steels. The austenitic stainless steels such as 304 and 316 are commonly...

Sometimes it’s interesting to see what happens when you cut a material. For thin sheet metal, shearing is a common operation to get to a net or near net geometry. Shearing applies a shear force to the sheet metal...