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    AISI 1018 steel is a mild/low carbon steel that offers good balance of toughness, strength and ductility. It has excellent weldability and produces a uniform hardened case when carburized. It is commonly used for carburized parts and provides higher mechanical properties and improved machinability compared to other steels. Specific manufacturing controls are used to develop a high quality product suited for fabrication processes like welding, forging, drilling and heat treating.

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    AISI 1018 steel is a mild/low carbon steel that offers good balance of toughness, strength and ductility. It has excellent weldability and produces a uniform hardened case when carburized. It is commonly used for carburized parts and provides higher mechanical properties and improved machinability compared to other steels. Specific manufacturing controls are used to develop a high quality product suited for fabrication processes like welding, forging, drilling and heat treating.

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    AISI 1018 steel is a mild/low carbon steel that offers good balance of toughness, strength and ductility. It has excellent weldability and produces a uniform hardened case when carburized. It is commonly used for carburized parts and provides higher mechanical properties and improved machinability compared to other steels. Specific manufacturing controls are used to develop a high quality product suited for fabrication processes like welding, forging, drilling and heat treating.

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    AISI 1018 Mild/Low Carbon Steel

    AISI 1018 mild/low carbon steel has excellent weldability and produces a uniform and harder case
    and it is considered as the best steel for carburized parts. AISI 1018 mild/low carbon steel offers a
    good balance of toughness, strength and ductility. Provided with higher mechanical properties,
    AISI 1018 hot rolled steel also includes improved machining characteristics and Brinell hardness.

    Specific manufacturing controls are used for surface preparation, chemical composition, rolling and
    heating processes. All these processes develop a supreme quality product that are suited to
    fabrication processes such as welding, forging, drilling, machining, cold drawing and heat treating.

    Chemical Composition
    Element Content

    Carbon, C 0.14 - 0.20 %

    Iron, Fe 98.81 - 99.26 % (as remainder)

    Manganese, Mn 0.60 - 0.90 %

    Phosphorous, P 0.040 %

    Sulfur, S 0.050 %

    Physical Properties
    Physical Properties Metric Imperial

    Density 7.87 g/cc 0.284 lb/in3

    Mechanical Properties
    Mechanical Properties Metric Imperial

    Hardness, Brinell 126 126

    Hardness, Knoop (Converted from Brinell hardness) 145 145

    Hardness, Rockwell B (Converted from Brinell hardness) 71 71

    Hardness, Vickers (Converted from Brinell hardness) 131 131

    Tensile Strength, Ultimate 440 MPa 63800 psi

    Tensile Strength, Yield 370 MPa 53700 psi

    Elongation at Break (In 50 mm) 15.0 % 15.0 %

    Reduction of Area 40.0 % 40.0 %

    Modulus of Elasticity (Typical for steel) 205 GPa 29700 ksi

    Bulk Modulus (Typical for steel) 140 GPa 20300 ksi

    Poissons Ratio (Typical For Steel) 0.290 0.290

    Machinability (Based on AISI 1212 steel. as 100% machinability) 70 % 70 %

    Shear Modulus (Typical for steel) 80.0 GPa 11600 ksi

    Electrical Properties
    Electrical Properties Metric English Comments

    Electrical resistivity @0C (32F) 0.0000159 -cm 0.0000159 -cm annealed condition

    @100 C/ 212 F 0.0000219 -cm 0.0000219 -cm annealed condition

    @ 200 C/392 F 0.0000293 -cm 0.0000293 -cm annealed condition


    Machining

    The machinability of AISI 1018 mild/low carbon steel is graded at 78% of B1112.

    Weldability

    AISI 1018 mild/low carbon steel can be instantly welded by all the conventional welding processes.
    Welding is not recommended for AISI 1018 mild/low carbon steel when it is carbonitrided and
    carburized.

    Low carbon welding electrodes are to be used in the welding procedure, and post-heating and pre-
    heating are not necessary. Pre-heating can be performed for sections over 50 mm. Post-weld
    stress relieving also has its own beneficial aspects like the pre-heating process.

    Heat Treatment

    The heat treatment for AISI 1018 mild/low carbon steel consists of the following processes:

    Normalizing

    AISI 1018 mild/low carbon steel should be heated at 890C 940C and then cooled in still
    air.

    Forging

    This process requires heating between 1150C 1280C and AISI 1018 mild/low carbon steel
    is held until the temperature becomes constant.
    900C is the minimum temperature required for the forging process.
    The steel is then cooled in air after this process.

    Tempering

    AISI 1018 mild/low carbon steel is tempered at between 150C 200C for improvement of
    case toughness. This process has little or no effect on hardness.
    The occurrence of grinding cracks is reduced when AISI 1018 mild/low carbon steel is
    tempered at the above mentioned temperature.

    Annealing

    The AISI 1018 mild/low carbon steel is heated at 870C 910C and allowed to cool in a
    furnace

    Stress Relieving

    500C 700C is required to relieve stress in AISI 1018 mild/low carbon steel that is later
    cooled down in still air.

    Case Hardening

    This process requires heating to be carried out between 780C 820C. AISI 1018 mild/low
    carbon steel is then quenched in water.

    Core Refining

    This is an optional process that requires heating at 880C 920C.


    AISI 1018 mild/low carbon steel after being heated is moistened in oil or water.

    Carburizing

    Carburizing takes place at 880C 920C.

    Applications of AISI 1018 Mild/Low Carbon Steel

    It is used in bending, crimping and swaging processes.


    Carburized parts that include worms, gears, pins, dowels, non-critical components of tool and
    die sets, tool holders, pinions, machine parts, ratchets, dowels and chain pins use AISI 1018
    mild/low carbon steel.
    It is widely used for fixtures, mounting plates and spacers.
    It is suitably used in applications that do not need high strength of alloy steels and high
    carbon.
    It provides high surface hardness and a soft core to parts that include worms, dogs, pins,
    liners, machinery parts, special bolts, ratchets, chain pins, oil tool slips, tie rods, anchor pins,
    studs etc.
    It is used to improve drilling, machining, threading and punching processes.
    It is used to prevent cracking in severe bends

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