15-5 PH stainless steel, also known as UNS S15500 or XM-12, is a variant of 17-4 PH. 15-5PH flanges are the low-carbon version of stainless steel alloy 304. Type 15-5 PH martensitic stainless steel is strong, corrosion resistant, mechanically well-performing at 600°F, and offers good toughness in both longitudinal and transverse directions. By briefly heating at low temperatures, scale and distortion are reduced.
Stainless Steel 15-5 PH Flanges are used in a variety of sectors due to their different qualities. Corrosion resistance, pitting corrosion resistance, crevice corrosion resistance, and many more resistance properties are the characteristics of the flanges.
For products that need to be made of hard stainless steel, both 15-5 and 17-4 stainless steel are used in numerous different industries. 15-5 stainless steel is free of ferrite, which is the main distinction between the two alloys.
Characteristics of SS 15-5 PH Flanges:
The flanges have numerous additional characteristics. They maintain excellent ductility, high tensile strength, outstanding toughness, and stability in high temperatures. The performance at elevated temperatures is beyond expectations as it has a high thermal capacity. It improves weldability as it resists forming any carbon layer within the machine or device. This is possible because of the less carbon content it has.
Chemical composition of SS 15-5 PH Flanges:
Chromium, nickel, and copper are present in significant concentrations in 15-5 PH stainless steel. Tantalum, columbium, silicon, manganese, phosphorus, sulfur, and each of these elements in trace levels that do not exceed 1 percent of the compositional total may also be present.