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With performance behaviour similar to tool E297 steel, Alloy 440B offers excellent hardness after heat treatment.
It is a high carbon, martensitic stainless steel product with good overall strength and moderate corrosion resistance in the hardened and tempered condition. The alloy must be free of scale and foreign particles if optimum corrosion resistance is to be achieved. 440B annealed product also offers similar machining characteristics when compared with high speed annealed steel grades. With such excellent hardness, the alloy also promotes good wear resistance. A hardness value of 60 HRC is achievable after heat treatment.
The product is not recommended for use in temperatures above the respective tempering temperature as mechanical properties would be reduced. The manufacturing specification for Alloy 440B is ASTM A276. Product applications include ball bearings, valves and measuring equipment.
Commercial applications for this engineering material include:
We stock 440B in round bar, plate and sheet.
Our knowledgeable staff and resident metallurgists will be pleased to assist you further on any technical topic. Smiths Metal Centres Limited also boasts an in-house UKAS Accredited Testing Laboratory which is unique within the multi-metal and plastic stockholding sector. We believe this underlines our total commitment to quality and our ethos of being the complete service provider.
A technical datasheet for 440B is available in PDF file format. To view and download, please click here.
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