Stainless Steel

Latest Stainless Steel Articles

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  Substances

  An Introduction to Stainless Steels

  Stainless steels are steels with a minimum of 10% chromium. They gain their resistance to corrosion from a thin, tenacious surface layer of chromium oxide. If the oxide...

  By: Michael Pfeifer | Principal Consultant and Trainer for Industrial Metallurgists, LLC

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  Corrosion Prevention

  Why is Stainless Steel Corrosion Resistant?

  Stainless steel is known for its corrosion resistance in many environments in which carbon and low-alloy tool steels would corrode. (Background reading: An Introduction...

  By: Michael Pfeifer | Principal Consultant and Trainer for Industrial Metallurgists, LLC

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  Corrosion Prevention

  Using Pickling and Passivation Chemical Treatments to Prevent Corrosion

  Both pickling and passivation are chemical treatments applied to the surface of stainless steel to remove contaminants and assist the formation of a continuous...

  By: Australasian Corrosion Association

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  Corrosion

  The Role of Chromium in Intergranular Corrosion

  Stainless steel alloys owe their anti-corrosive properties to chromium, which grants a passivation effect to both ferrite and austenite steels when found in sufficient...

  By: Nemanja Pavlovic