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Finding properties of unknown material with known
and/or partially known designation is very common engineering
activity.
Although sometimes fairly trivial, this
task can often be extremely tedious and time-consuming, especially
when materials originating from different countries and standards
are involved. |
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Now look how your problems can become a history.
Key to Steel will do it for you
in seconds and save a lot of time and efforts.
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Step 1: Choosing
a search option
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Suppose that you want to
identify material with the designation 12 Ni 19. Origin of the material is unknown.
Your first step is to choose a
search option. Key to Steel search engine
performes searching material(s) by designation most
efficiently through the Regular Search
option. | |
Step 2: Defining
search criteria
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You are entering material
12 Ni 19 in the designation
field. Spaces and cases are not relevant for searching
(12Ni19 and 12 ni 19 are
the same), since the world standards of steel designations are
not treating spaces in a uniform way.
Since the origin of the material
is unknown, you are leaving All in
country's pop-up list. Search engine will search whole
database.
All you have to do then is
to simply click Submit button. In a few
seconds Key to Steel search engine will find
all steel materials in the world, which have
12 Ni 19 in their
designation! | |
Step 3: Selecting
a material from the list of the results
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Searching materials by
designation generally results in list of steel materials that
satisfy criteria you gave. Depending on search criteria,
this list can be quite large (up to 500 materials), but in our
example resulting list consists of 9 materials. By
clicking on their designation, you can retrieve and
review their properties.
Suppose that we are mainly
interested in German steel materials, defined by DIN.
Therefor, we are selecting steel defined by
DIN from the
list. | |
Step 4: Selecting
group/subgroup of the material
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Sometimes steel materials with
the same designation can be defined by various standards in
the same country and/or belong to more than one group and
subgroup. Although chemical composition usually does not vary
significantly, group/subgroup where material belongs sometimes
has significant consequences on mechanical properties of the
material and its application.
Key to Steel
displays groups/subgroups where material belongs in the list.
Very often there is only one, since the majority of materials
are defined in only one standard/group/subgroup, but there can
also be more options. You can review material properties
by clicking More from the list.
Now all parameters are defined,
and you can view properties of the steel. Everything is
completed in less than one
minute! | |
Step 5: Viewing
the properties of the material
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Key to Steel
displays chemical composition, mechanical properties of the
material, its application and cross-reference table of the
materials (i.e. table of similar steel materials). You
can view those properties and, if you want, print out
them by using standard Print option of your Web
browser.
The end of the tour? Not necessarily.
There is one interesting feature: materials enlisted in
cross-reference table have
their own
hyperlinks.
So if you want to see properties of any of them (for
example USA AISI steel), you just have to
click on its designation. Key to Steel will
instantly bring you
there! | |
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