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SAE AMS · United States / Aerospace · 3 designations

6526

6526 is a designation in SAE AMS for the material held under material number 1.6974, also listed as K91283. It is a material in the category Special steels for aviation and aerospace. We list 3 designations recorded for this grade, in the standards UNS and SAE AMS.

If you came for one of these

The most-used names for this grade.

About Special steels for aviation and aerospace

Special steels for aviation and aerospace are engineered steels designed to provide controlled mechanical properties and reliable performance in demanding service. Their alloying and heat-treatment capabilities support components that require a combination of strength, toughness and fatigue resistance, including aircraft structures and engine parts.

This describes the material class as a whole. Always confirm the individual grade against the standard before ordering.

Also known as

3 designations · 2 standards · nothing hidden
This grade’s own namerecorded in our sources as this grade’s own designation under that standard.
Indicativetaken from a published cross-reference table; a close match, not a guarantee of interchangeability. Verify against the mill certificate before ordering.
Withdrawndesignation no longer current — a separate column from the two above, so a name can be same grade and withdrawn at once.
SAE AMSUnited States / Aerospace · 1
  • 6526Indicative

Every designation on file is listed — no truncation, no “+ n more”. Each one is itself a route that leads back here.

Chemical composition

10 elements on file · weight %

What this alloy is

Iron — the balance, never listed by a standard — 85.3 %Ni — 7.5 %Co — 4.5 %Cr — 1 %Traces & impurities · 1.8 %

Logarithmic scale, 0.01 % to 100 % — every value here compares directly, decade by decade.

Element% by weight
0.29–0.34
≤ 0.1
0.1–0.35
0.01
0.01
0.9–1.1
0.9–1.1
7–8
0.06–0.12
4.25–4.75
CarbonSiliconManganesePhosphorusSulfurChromiumMolybdenumNickelVanadiumCobalt
0.01 %0.1 %1 %10 %100 %

The scale is logarithmic, not the element’s raw share of the alloy — the only honest way to fit 0.01 % and 100 % in one picture, and it means every value here can be compared with every other.

ElementAs publishedsource text, verbatimMin% by weightMax% by weightBound
C0,29-0,340.2900.340Range
Si≤0,100.100Max
P0,010.0100.010Exact
S0,010.0100.010Exact
V0,06-0,120.0600.120Range
Cr0,90-1,100.9001.100Range
Mn0,10-0,350.1000.350Range
Co4,25-4,754.2504.750Range
Ni7,00-8,007.0008.000Range
Mo0,90-1,100.9001.100Range

The published column is the source string byte-for-byte, decimal comma and all; Min and Max are the parsed bounds. Elements not listed have no value on file — they are omitted, never inferred.

Predicted transformation temperatures

This grade's composition falls outside the published model's validated range (a low-alloy composition window), so no transformation temperature is predicted here.

Physical & mechanical properties

Density7,85g/cm³Exact

An absent property means we hold no value for it — it is left out rather than estimated, interpolated from a neighbouring grade, or filled from a handbook. It does not mean the property is undefined for the material.

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