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Stainless Steel Hollow Bars Will Be Your Preference
Updated: Sep 9, 2022
Stainless steel hollow bars are used in the production of various construction and engineering projects because they are strong, durable, and easy to work with. They can be cut into smaller pieces for more accessible transportation or welded together to create larger pieces for more complex projects.
What are stainless steel hollow bars?
A hollow bar is a metal bar with a center bore the entire length, as the name implies. Extruded from a forged bar and then cut into the desired shape, these bars are made in the same way as seamless tubes.
Compared to led or forged components, the bar has superior mechanical qualities, including improved uniformity and impact toughness. Furthermore, this material's shape consistency and dimensional tolerances are typically excellent.
What is Stainless Steel?
As explained previously, stainless steel is an alloy of ordinary steel to carbon steel and carbon steel alloys. Stainless steel combines steel and chromium, accounting for around 10.5% of the overall bar.
Because of the chromium infusion, chromium oxide forms on the surface when the bar comes into touch with oxygen or water. This layer of chromium oxide provides the bar with a protective coating that may even repair itself if it is damaged. Stainless steel is a good construction material because of this feature.
Stainless Steel Hollowbars offer unique properties.
The wall thickness is the only difference between a stainless steel hollow bar and a seamless tube. Fluids are transported through tubes, which are designed and manufactured. As a result, any machining is restricted to the end (to form couplings or connectors). On the other hand, a hollow bar will often have a much thicker wall thickness to allow the machining of various finished components.
When hollow bars are used instead of solid bars, material and tooling costs are lowered, machining time is cut, and productivity is raised. Starting with a near-net-shaped hollow bar, less metal is lost as low-value swarf and o,o; more miniature tooling is consumed. As a result, employing this can result in immediate cost savings.
By: Scan Tube Steel