Quality 20MnCr5

According to standards EN 10084: 2008 Lucefin Group

Number 1.7147
Chemical composition
C% Si% Mn% P% S% Cr%
max max max
0,17-0,22 0,40 1,10-1,40 0,025 0,035 1,00-1,30 Permissible deviations
± 0.02 + 0.03 ± 0.05 + 0.005 + 0.005 ± 0.05 on the product
20MnCrS5 N° 1.7149 S% 0.020-0.040 permissible deviation on the product ± 0.005%
By agreement this steel can be supplied with the addition of lead (Pb) 0.15-0.35%
Calcium (Ca) treatment may be supplied on request
Temperature °C
Hot forming Normalizing Core Carbonitriding Carburizing Hardening Tempering
hardening carburizing surf.
1150-850 860-880 860-890 750-930 880-930 810-840 150
air oil-polymer gas oil-polymer 200
(HB 140-201) salt bath salt bath
Soft Isothermal Spheroidizing End quench Preheating Stress relieving
anealing +A annealing Hardenability welding after welding
750-770 slowly 860 furnace 720-740 furnace 870 welding must be made on the annealing and before
15 °C/h cooling to cooling to 670 water the carburizing
until 680 pause 650 after, air pause 150-350 600 furnace cooling
after slowly to 400 cooling to 300 AC1 AC3 MS * core
pause, after air after air ** carburizing surface
(HB max 217) (HB 170-217) (HB 152-201) 730 830 390* 200**
Transformation annealing +FP As-rolled Stress relieving
950-1000 quick cooling to 620-650 holding abaut 3 h, after air --- 600-620
(HB 152-201) (HB max 230)
Mechanical and physical properties
Hot rolled properties obtained from test blanks after core hardening + stress relieving UNI 7846: 1978 Only reference.
size Testing at room temperature (longitudinal)
mm R Rp 0.2 A% C% Kcu HB
test blanks N/mm2 N/mm2 min. min. min. J min.
11 1230-1570 930 7 -- 17.5 363-438
30 930-1230 690 8 -- 20 278-363 for information
63 780-1080 540 9 -- 25 232-327 for information
Table of tempering values at room temperature for round Ø 10 mm after quenching at 870 °C in oil
HB 426 426 421 421 415 409 395 381 362 336 294 261 240 224
HRC 45.5 45.5 45 45 44.5 44 42.5 41 39 36 31 26.5 22.5 --
R N/mm2 1500 1500 1490 1480 1460 1430 1370 1300 1210 1100 980 875 795 740
Rp 0.2 N/mm2 1060 1140 1190 1230 1240 1240 1220 1180 1090 960 850 750 670 600
A % 11.5 11.9 12.0 12.0 11.9 11.8 11.9 12.2 12.8 14.0 16.0 18.8 21.8 23.2
C % 48 49 50 52 53 55 56 58 60 62 64 67 70 72
Kv J 38 40 40 40 38 38 32 34 75 75 100 128 145 155
HRC carburizing 64.5 64 63 60.5 59 57 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
surface
Tempering at °C 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500 550 600 650 700
20MnCrS5 1.7149 EN 10277-4: 2008 Lucefin Group
size Soft annealing +A +SH Soft annealing +A +C Heat treatment +FP +SH Heat treatment +FP +C
mm Peeled Reeled Cold drawn for pearlite / ferrite for pearlite / ferrite
Ground +SL Peeled Reeled, Ground Cold drawn
over to HB max HB max HB HB
5 a) 10 -- 270 -- --
10 16 -- 260 -- --
16 40 217 255 152-201 152-250
40 63 217 250 152-201 152-245
63 100 217 250 152-201 152-245
a) for thickness below 5 mm mechanical properties can be agreed before order placement

Forged UNI 8550: 1984 Only reference.

size Testing at room temperature (longitudinal)
mm R Rp 0.2 A% L A% T A% Q Kcu L Kcu T Kv L HB
over to N/mm2 N/mm2 min min min min J min J min J min for inform.
11 1225-1570 930 7 -- -- 17.5 -- -- 361-438
11 25 930-1225 685 8 -- -- 20 -- -- 278-361
25 50 785-1080 540 9 -- -- 25 -- -- 234-327
mechanical properties obtained from test blanks after core hardening + stress relieving
L = longitudinal T = tangential Q = radial
EN 10084: 2008 Jominy test HRC grain size 5 min.
distance in mm from quenched end
1.5 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 -- H
min 41 39 36 33 30 28 26 25 23 21 -- -- -- -- -- -- normal
max 49 49 48 46 43 42 41 39 37 35 34 33 32 -- -- --
Temperature Mod. of elasticity N/mm2 Rp 0.2 N/mm2 Thermal expansion
Testing at °C E long. G tang. Ǿ < 250 mm Ǿ 250-500 [(m/m●K) ●10-6 °C-1 ]
20 210000 80000 -- -- --
100 205000 78000 -- -- 11.1
200 195000 75000 -- -- 12.1
300 -- -- -- -- 12.9
400 175000 67000 -- -- 13.5
500 -- -- -- -- 14.1
600 155000 59000 -- -- --
Specific heat capacity Density Thermal conductivity Specific electric resist. Conductivity
J/(Kg●K) Kg/dm3 W/(m●K) Ohm●mm2/m Siemens●m/mm2
460 7.85 41 0.16 6.25
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