Steel 20 (20A; 20B)
Designation
Description
Steel 20 is used: for the manufacture of sheet metal, 1−2 mm 4−14 category, intended for cold forming; after normalization, or without heat treatment of the hooks of cranes, couplings, bearings and other components operating at temperatures from -40 °C to +450 °C under pressure; after HTO for the manufacture of gears, worms, worm pairs and other details, which are requirements of high surface hardness with a low strength of the core; cold-rolled fin tubes with outer diameter 32, 38 and 50 mm, designed for steam boilers with supercritical steam parameters; tubes of the superheaters, headers and piping of high-pressure boilers; carburized parts for a long, very long service at temperatures up to +350 °C; blanks parts of pipeline valves; parts such as bottoms, collar flanges, fittings, rings, tubes, tees and parts of rectangular shape for power equipment and pipelines with an absolute pressure of more than 3.9 MPa and thermal power plants; equipment and piping of nuclear power plants (NPP); parts and elements of pipelines of steam and hot water nuclear power plants (NPP), with a design ambient temperature no higher than 350 °C at an operating pressure of less than 2.2 MPa (22 kgf/cm2); tubes for plants of chemical and petrochemical plants with nominal pressure PN=19.6−98 MPa (200−1000 kgf/cm2); spirally pipes with two-sided joint for pipelines of nuclear power plants; pipes seamless high pressure (6−10 mm) for diesel fuel; hot-rolled steel profile for the manufacture of wheel rims for agricultural machines; electric-welded pipes for the manufacture of parts and structures in motovelotehnika; steel bent closed welded square and rectangular sections, intended for use in agricultural machinery, tractor and other sectors of the economy; cold-resistant seamless hot-deformed pipes for gas-lift systems and construction of gas fields; solid-rolled rings for different purposes; seamless, cold-drawn, warm, hot-wrought, including hot-pressed and hot-pressed reduced pipes for steam boilers and pipelines, installations with high and supercritical steam parameters; seamless cold-drawn, warm, hot-wrought, including hot-pressed and hot-pressed pipes is reduced, designed for steam boilers and pipelines, installations with high and supercritical steam parameters; bimetallic seamless tubes for shipbuilding with an outer layer of steel and an inner layer of copper, electric cold pipes for propeller shafts of automobiles, tractors and machines; hot-deformed seamless pipes used in shipbuilding for steam; seamless hot-deformed pipes with improved corrosion and cold-resistance (article 20A), with an outer diameter from 89 to 426 mm, strength class not less than K48, infield pipelines, transporting products of oil wells (low pressure water pipelines fresh and produced water at pressures up to 2 MPa in the system reservoir flooding); pipes seamless hot-deformed oil and gas increased corrosion resistance and cold-resistance designed for the construction and exploitation oil and gas in the Northern climatic zones of oil-producing enterprises of OAO «Nizhnevartovskneftegaz» with the ambient temperature from minus 50 °C to +40 °C temperature of the transported media from +5 °C to +40°C
; tubes with external transverse fins, made with welding currents of high frequency, steam boiler, designed for production of heating surfaces; the pipes used in aircraft; the bars used for the manufacture of car parts.
Note
The degree of deoxidation — SP.
Structural alloy steel of high corrosion resistance and cold-resistance.
Standards
Chemical composition
According to TU 14-1-1672-76, the chemical composition is given for steel grade 20A. The residual copper content is allowed no more than 0.25% when the steel is scrap-process. Deviations from the norms of chemical composition in accordance with GOST 1050 are allowed. At the request of the order, steel can be supplied with narrowed limits of carbon content - "select": 0.19-0.25%; 0.19-0.23%; 0.22-0.25%; 0.21-0.24%.
According to GOST 1050-88, the nitrogen content is specified for the steel of the oxygen-converter method of smelting. For all other types of smelting, the nitrogen content was N≤0.008%.
According to TU 14-1-5185-93, TU 14-1-5058-91 the chemical composition is given for steel grade 20bv.
According to TU 08.002.0501.5348-92 the chemical composition is given for steel grade 20-Ш.
According to TU 14-1-3987-85 the chemical composition is given for steel grade 20.
According to TU 14-1-1529-2003, TU 14-3-460-2003 and TU 14-3-341-75 for steel produced by scrap process or from cuprous ores, the mass fraction of residual copper and nickel is allowed up to 0.30 % of each. A technological addition of rare earth elements is allowed to improve the quality of the metal.
According to TU 14-3P-55-2001 the chemical composition is given for steel 20; for steel 20-PV, the carbon mass fraction is 0.18-0.24%, chromium, nickel, copper, sulfur, and phosphorus ≤ 0.15% each, the mass fraction of the remaining elements is identical to grade 20. In steel 20, the content of nickel and chromium not more than 0.40% each. The presence of rare-earth elements introduced as technological additives is allowed.
According to GOST 19277-73, GOST 21729-76 chemical composition is given for steel 20A. When smelting steel skapprotsessom the mass fraction of copper should be ≤ 0,25%. Limit deviations in chemical composition - in accordance with GOST 1050.
According to TU 1317-006.1-593377520-2003 the chemical composition is given for steel grade 20A. The mass fraction of hydrogen in the steel in the metal of the pipe should not exceed 1.0 ppm (2.0 ppm in the ladle sample, niobium and titanium can be added from the calculation of the mass fraction to 0.030% and 0.010%, respectively.) In the deoxidized steel for the globularization of sulfide inclusions enter calcium (silicocalcium) or cerium from the calculation of the mass fraction of 0.050%.
According to TU 14-162-14-96 the chemical composition is given for steel grade 20A. Variations in the carbon content (-0,020%), aluminum (± 0,010%), manganese (+0,15%), sulfur (+0,005%), phosphorus (+0,005%) are allowed in the steel. In order to increase the strength properties, it is allowed to introduce into the steel vanadium in an amount up to 0.050%.
According to TU 14-3-1971-97, the chemical composition is given for steel grade 20B with enhanced corrosion resistance and operational reliability. To ensure the fine structure of the structure, vanadium is introduced to 0.06%. The carbon equivalent of Seques should not exceed 0.40%.
According to TU 1301-039-00212179-2010 the chemical composition is given for steel grade 20-III. The content of each impurity element, not regulated by the table, is allowed up to 0.050%.
According to TU 108.1273-84, deviations in nickel + 0.20%, copper + 0.20% are allowed.
According to TU 14-158-113-99, the chemical composition is given for steel grade 20 with increased corrosion resistance and cold resistance. In the finished metal, deviations in chemical composition are allowed in accordance with GOST 1050, in addition - for aluminum +0.0050%. With a mass fraction of nitrogen of more than 0.0080%, vanadium microalloying is not less than 0.030%.
According to TU 14-161-149-94, the chemical composition is given for steel grade 20 for casing pipes and couplings for them with hydrogen sulfide-resistant and cold-resistant ones.