What is hardenability curve?
What is hardenability curve?
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Hi friends,
What is hardenability curve? Recently I came across this term and don’t know anything about it. I am looking for hardenability curves for different grades of stainless steel. Where can I find this information? Could anyone please help me?
Thanks.
What is hardenability curve? Recently I came across this term and don’t know anything about it. I am looking for hardenability curves for different grades of stainless steel. Where can I find this information? Could anyone please help me?
Thanks.





RE: What is hardenability curve?
The Jominy curves are used for carbon and low alloy steel. When it comes to stainless steel, the only grades that are hardenable by heat treatment are the martensitic grades and precipitation hardening grades. Keep in mind that the stainless steel grades are alloyed so that the transformation is uniform throughout. In other words, you do not have multiple transformation products with heat treatable stainless steels like you do with carbon and low alloy steels. Thus, you probably will not find any meaningful hardenability curves for heat treatable stainless steel alloys.