Austenitic stainless steel

Convergent beam electron diffraction (CBED) transmission electron micrograph of a [111] zone axis of austenitic stainless steel

Austenitic stainless steel is one of the five classes of stainless steel by crystalline structure (along with ferritic, martensitic, duplex and precipitation hardened[1]). Its primary crystalline structure is austenite (face-centered cubic) and it prevents steels from being hardenable by heat treatment and makes them essentially non-magnetic.[2] This structure is achieved by adding enough austenite-stabilizing elements such as nickel, manganese and nitrogen.[citation needed] The Incoloy family of alloys belong to the category of super austenitic stainless steels.[3]

  1. ^ The International Nickel Company (1974). "Standard Wrought Austenitic Stainless Steels". Nickel Institute. Archived from the original on 2018-01-09. Retrieved 2018-01-09.
  2. ^ "Stainless Steel". Encyclopaedia Britannica. 21 June 2024.
  3. ^ "Super Alloy INCOLOY Alloy 800 (UNS N08800)". AZoNetwork. 3 July 2013.