DIN / EN · Europe · 2 designations

P460QL2

P460QL2 is a material in the category Others, held under material number 1.8864. Its recorded composition includes C ≤ 0.18%, Si ≤ 0.5%, Cr ≤ 0.5%, Mn ≤ 1.7% and Ni 1%. We list one designation recorded for this grade, in the standard UNS. Recorded mechanical properties include Rm 500–720 N/mm² and ReH 400–460 N/mm²; these figures vary with the delivery condition and dimension. Its recorded density is 7.85 g/cm³.

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About Others

These are miscellaneous metallic alloys that do not fit a more specific material family and may be based on iron, nickel, cobalt, copper or other alloy systems. They are selected for applications requiring particular combinations of strength, hardness, toughness, wear resistance or resistance to demanding service conditions.

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

Also known as

2 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Withdrawndesignation no longer current — a separate column from the two above, so a name can be same grade and withdrawn at once.

DIN / ENEurope · 1

P460QL2This grade’s own name

UNSUnited States · 1

K12437Indicative

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

Chemical composition

15 elements on file · weight %

What this alloy is

Iron — the balance, never listed by a standard — 95.1 %Mn — 1.7 %Ni — 1 %Si — 0.5 %Traces & impurities · 1.7 %

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

Element	% by weight
	≤ 0.18
	≤ 0.5
	≤ 1.7
	0.02
	0.005
	≤ 0.5
	≤ 0.5
	1
	≤ 0.08
	≤ 0.3
	≤ 0.03
	≤ 0.05
	0.015
	≤ 0.005
	≤ 0.05

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.

Element	As publishedsource text, verbatim	Min% by weight	Max% by weight	Bound
B	≤0,005	—	0.005	Max
C	≤0,18	—	0.180	Max
N	0,015	0.015	0.015	Exact
Si	≤0,50	—	0.500	Max
P	0,02	0.020	0.020	Exact
S	0,005	0.005	0.005	Exact
Ti	≤0,030	—	0.030	Max
V	≤0,08	—	0.080	Max
Cr	≤0,50	—	0.500	Max
Mn	≤1,70	—	1.700	Max
Ni	1	1.000	1.000	Exact
Cu	≤0,30	—	0.300	Max
Zr	≤0,05	—	0.050	Max
Nb	≤0,050	—	0.050	Max
Mo	≤0,50	—	0.500	Max

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

computed from composition · °C

Predicted Ae3802°C

Predicted Ae1708°C

Predicted Acm429°C

Predicted Bs515°C

These four temperatures are a CALCULATION from this grade's own composition, using the published Li, Niebuhr, Meekisho & Atteridge (1998) model — never a measurement, and computed from the UPPER BOUND of each element's specified range, not a mid-range figure. Where this grade also has a measured transformation point (Ac1, Ac3, Ar1, Ar3) on file, it is shown separately, in Physical & mechanical properties, and is never replaced by the predicted figures here — Ae (predicted, equilibrium) and Ac/Ar (measured, on heating or cooling) are different physical quantities and can differ by tens of degrees; a mismatch between the two is not an error in either.

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.

Properties by condition

1 conditions · 5 values

By thicknessQuenched and temperedsource steelnumber

Thicknessmm	ReHN/mm²	RmN/mm²
≤ 50	460	—
50 – 100	440	—
≤ 100	—	550 – 720
100 – 150	400	500 – 670

Every figure holds only for the condition on its own row. Values are never merged across conditions or across sources, never averaged, and never interpolated between two rows. An em dash means no value on file — never zero. Figures are converted to the unit in the column header; the source’s own wording is kept and shown where the two differ.

Similar grades — and why

Selection rule, stated so you can disagree with it: same number class 1.8, a shared category, and a published range for Ni / Mn that overlaps this grade’s. These are neighbours in composition space — they are not equivalents, and none is claimed to be interchangeable with this grade.

P460QH1.8871

Ni 1 · Mn ≤1,70