High Carbon Steels

The carbon content in these steels varies among 0.55% to 0.9%. Very high hardnesses can be achieved through heat treatment. They develop extreme resistance to wear and hence are good for tooling applications.In yet another classification steels containing up to 0.3% C are known as low carbon steels thus including both dead and mild steel. Those containing carbon among 0.3 and 0.6% are medium carbon steels and those containing carbon in excess of 0.6% carbon are high carbon steel thus including carbon tool steels.

Table describes various applications of plain carbon steels, whereas Table describes plain steels for several applications.

                                       Table : Plain Carbon Steels for Different Applications