This specification covers an aircraft-quality, low-alloy steel in the form of heat-treated bars and forgings, and of forging stock.
This material has been used typically for nitrided parts requiring high surface hardness, resistance to heat, and less distortion than parts fabricated from steel requiring quenching to case harden, but usage is not limited to such applications.
This steel may be case hardened in dissociated ammonia gas to provide a minimum case hardness of 900 HV.
SAE AMS6472H-2024 Referenced Document
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ASTM A370 Standard Test Methods and Definitions for Mechanical Testing of Steel Products
ASTM A751 Standard Test Methods, Practices, and Terminology for Chemical Analysis of Steel Products
ASTM E1077 Standard Test Methods for Estimating the Depth of Decarburization of Steel Specimens
ASTM E140 Standard Hardness Conversion Tables for Metals Relationship Among Brinell Hardness, Vickers Hardness, Rockwell Hardness, Superficial Hardness, Knoop Hardness, and Scleroscope Hardness
ASTM E381 Standard Method of Macroetch Testing Steel Bars, Billets, Blooms, and Forgings