ASTM A36 steel plate is the most widely used hot-rolled steel product. As a kind of carbon structural steel product, its relative products are round rod steel, angle bar, and steel sections such as I-Beams, H-beams, angles, and channels.
Product introduction
ASTM A36 Carbon Structural Steel Plate
ASTM A36 steel plate is the most widely used hot-rolled steel product. As a kind of carbon structural steel product, its relative products are round rod steel, angle bar, and steel sections such as I-Beams, H-beams, angles, and channels. Hot rolled ASTM A36 has rough surface on the final product, it’s easy for further processing like machining.
Chemical Composition analyze:
ASTM A36 belongs to general low carbon steel, steel product with low carbon content less than 0.3%,it is considerably soft for easy forming, machining, welding. Heat treatment has less effect on ASTM A36 steel material. It contains some other elements including alloy element: manganese, sulfur, phosphorus and silicon. Iron and these elements together forms unique mechanical property of ASTM A36, unlike stainless steel with nickel and chromium element, it doesn’t show good corrosion resistance. If you need corrosion resistant property, having it painted with a layer of plating is a good choice.
Product Parameters
| Product Name | A36/Q235/S235JR carbon steel plate |
| Production process | hot rolling,cold rolling |
| Material Standards | AISI,ASTM,ASME,DIN,BS,EN,ISO,JIS,GOST,SAE etc. |
| Width | 100mm-3000mm |
| Length | 1m-12m,or customized size |
| Thickness | 0.1mm-400mm |
| Delivery conditions | rolling,Annealing,Quenching,Tempered or standard |
| Surface process | Ordinary,Wire drawing,Laminated film |
chemical composition
| C | Cu | Fe | Mn | P | Si | S |
| 0.25~0.290 | 0.20 | 98.0 | 1.03 | 0.040 | 0.280 | 0.050 |
Mechanical properties
| A36 | LimitTensile Strength | Tensile strength, yield strength | Elongation at break(Unit: 200mm) | Elongation at break(Unit: 50mm) | modulus of elasticity | bulk modulus(typical for steel) | Poisson’s ratio | shear modulus |
| Metric | 400~550MPa | 250MPa | 20.0% | 23.0% | 200GPa | 140GPa | 0.260 | 79.3GPa |
| Imperial | 58000~79800psi | 36300psi | 20.0% | 23.0% | 29000ksi | 20300ksi | 0.260 | 11500ksi |
Physical Performance
| Physical Performance | Metric | Imperial |
| Density | 7.85 g/cm3 | 0.284 lb/in3 |
Scope of application
Bolted, riveted or welded structures for bridges, buildings and oil drilling rigs. Used for forming storage tanks, silos, bearing plates, fixtures, rings, templates, fixtures, sprockets, cams, gears, bottom plates, forgings, decoration engineering, piles, brackets, automobiles and agricultural equipment, frames, mechanical parts, etc.
Equivalent Material
| National StandardGB | European StandardEN | American StandardASTM | German StandardDIN,WNr | Japanese standardJIS | French StandardAFNOR | British StandardBS | CanadaHG |
| Q235B | S235JR | A283C | St37-2 | SM400A | E24-2 | 40A/40B | 230G |
| ItalyUNI | IndiaIS | SwitzerlandSS | AustraliaONORM | NorwayNS | SpainUNE | International StandardsISO | PortugalNP |
| Fe360B | IS2062 | 1311/1312 | RSt360B | NS12123 | AE235B-FN | E235B/ Fe360B | FE360-B |