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UNS · United States · 7 designations

K12003

K12003 is a designation in UNS for the material held under material number 1.8812, also listed as 18MnMoV5-2. It is a material in the category Heat-resistant structural steels. We list 7 designations recorded for this grade, in the standards DIN / EN and UNS.

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The most-used names for this grade.

About Heat-resistant structural steels

Heat-resistant structural steels are structural steels designed to retain useful strength and dimensional stability at elevated temperatures. They are used for load-bearing components in hot-service equipment where mechanical performance must be maintained during heating.

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

Also known as

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Withdrawndesignation no longer current — a separate column from the two above, so a name can be same grade and withdrawn at once.

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

Chemical composition

8 elements on file · weight %

What this alloy is

Iron — the balance, never listed by a standard — 97.9 %Mn — 1.3 %Si — 0.4 %C — 0.2 %Traces & impurities · 0.4 %

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

Element% by weight
≤ 0.2
0.2–0.5
1–1.5
0.03
0.025
0.1–0.3
0.05–0.1
0.02
CarbonSiliconManganesePhosphorusSulfurMolybdenumVanadiumNitrogen
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
C≤0,200.200Max
N0,020.0200.020Exact
Si0,20-0,500.2000.500Range
P0,030.0300.030Exact
S0,0250.0250.025Exact
V0,05-0,100.0500.100Range
Mn1,00-1,501.0001.500Range
Mo0,10-0,300.1000.300Range

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

Not enough recorded composition to predict a transformation temperature for this grade — missing: Ni, Cr.

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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