Carbon Steel Plate
Carbon Steel Plate
Alro Steel is your trusted carbon steel plate supplier. We offer carbon steel plate in a wide range of grade options, including A36 with varying carbon contents. Alro’s carbon steel plate is stocked in various sizes and thicknesses, offering excellent welding, machining, and forming characteristics.
Alro Steel is your trusted carbon steel plate supplier and go-to source for premium A36 steel plate.Request a quote or contact us at 517-787-5500 to learn more about our carbon steel offerings. We deliver custom cut-to-size orders that can be processed to your requirements.
Why Choose Carbon Steel Plate?
Low-carbon steel plates are often used as a general-purpose tooling metal due to their mechanical properties and ease of machinability. Hot rolled carbon steel plate and sheet are ideal for drilling, grinding, and tapping, providing exceptional welding properties for a range of applications.
Carbon Steel Plate Advantages
Carbon steel plate is a corrosion-resistant and abrasion-resistant steel that is well-suited for applications requiring durability against stress and environmental stressors, particularly when used for outdoor purposes. Additional benefits of carbon steel plate include:
- Excellent ductility
- Enhanced versatility
- Malleable and easy to fabricate
- Can be galvanized for increased corrosion resistance
- Cost-effective when compared with aluminum or stainless steel
Carbon Steel Plate Applications
Carbon A36 steel plate is commonly used within the following applications:
- Construction – Bridges, buildings, and structural components
- Industrial equipment – Pressure vessels, storage tanks, machinery bases
- Shipbuilding & transportation – Hulls, frames, and heavy-duty parts
- Manufacturing – Tools, dies, and general fabrications
Carbon Steel Plate Specifications
Steel is commonly considered carbon steel when no minimum content is specified for any alloying element (for example, aluminum, chromium, nickel, molybdenum, vanadium, etc.) or any other element added to obtain a desired alloy effect.
The manganese does not exceed 1.65%, the specified minimum for copper is not below 0.40% or above 0.60%, and silicon does not exceed 0.60%. There are low, medium, and high carbon steel plates. The more carbon content a plate has, the more durable it becomes.
Carbon Content for Carbon Steel Plate
Carbon steel plate levels are divided as follows:
- Low carbon = .06% to .25% carbon content (mild steel)
- Medium carbon = .25% to .55% carbon content (medium steel)
- High carbon = >.55% to 1.00% carbon content (hard steel)
- Carbon Steel Plate Grades
Carbon steel plates are available in numerous grade options to serve your project needs. The following carbon steel sheet grade list explains the system used to recognize different grades:
10XX = non-resulpherized carbon steel, with manganese 1.00% maximum (for example, 1018, 1045, and 1050)
11XX = resulpherized carbon steel (for example, 1117, 1141, and 1144)
12XX = rephosphorized and resulpherized carbon steel (for example, 12L14 and 1215)
The second two numbers in AISI-SAE designations indicate the approximate carbon content for steel (for example, in 1018, the carbon range is .15% to .20%; .18% [shown as “18”] is the approximate carbon content).
Additional Carbon Steel Shapes
In addition to plate, carbon Steel can be formed into Bars, Pipe and Tube, Sheet, and Structural shapes (Angle, Channel, Beams, Tees, and Rebar/Re-rod). For Alro Steel’s range of carbon steel plate grades, see our product listing table below. We also stock a wide range of other metal products to meet your application requirements.
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