What Are Stainless Steel 316L Square Bars?

Stainless Steel 316L Square Bars are constructed using an alloy known as 316L, a low carbon variant of the popular 316 alloy that exhibits superior corrosion resistance when exposed to acidic or chloride-rich environments. They're known as low carbon due to reduced carbon content allowing easier welding processes while decreasing sensitization risk that leads to corrosion under certain circumstances. The "L" in "low carbon" denotes improved weldability as well as decreased risk.

Stainless Steel 316L Square Bars stand out with their excellent corrosion resistance, making them suitable for various demanding environments such as marine applications, chemical processing facilities and food industries. Their square shape offers additional strength and rigidity ideal for structural applications where stability and durability is of utmost importance, additionally their smooth finish facilitates easy cleaning and maintenance enhancing their suitability for hygiene applications.

316L Stainless Steel Square Bars

Stainless Steel 316L Square Bars exhibit exceptional strength and toughness, which enables them to withstand high temperatures and pressure without deforming or experiencing structural failure, making them suitable for use in heat exchangers, pressure vessels, or equipment operating under harsh environments without deforming or failing structurally. Furthermore, its formability allows easy fabrication into various shapes or components according to specific requirements.

Automotive industries often utilize Stainless Steel 316L Square Bars in manufacturing exhaust systems, catalytic converters and other components exposed to harmful gases and chemicals. Construction sectors use them for architectural framing purposes such as structural framing or decorative elements where aesthetics and durability are important considerations. They're also widely employed for fasteners, fittings and valves used within plumbing, HVAC systems due to their resistance against corrosion or pitting in water, steam environments.

Stainless Steel 316L Square Bars have become indispensable tools in numerous industries that prioritize performance, longevity and corrosion resistance, such as aerospace and defense applications for fabricating aircraft components, missile parts and naval equipment requiring high strength corrosion resistance reliability, while in medical manufacturing of surgical instruments biocompatibility sterilization processes. Overall SS316L square bars unique versatility has made them invaluable across a range of fields where performance longevity corrosion resistance are all equally valued attributes.

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Manufacturing Process Of Stainless Steel 316L Square Bars

Casting

Melting and Casting

Steel and alloying metals are loaded into an electric arc furnace. Once in the furnace, the metal is heated to a specific temperature above its melting point, usually in excess of 2800°F.

Forming Round Bar

Forming

Most cast steel is formed by hot rolling—the slab, bloom, or billet is heated and passed through large rollers, stretching out the steel into a longer, thinner form.

Heat Treatment

Heat treatment

Heat treatment strengthens rolled stainless steel by recrystallizing the deformed microstructure. Most stainless steel is heat treated by annealing.

Descaling

Descaling

A rolled piece of stainless steel acquires a layer of oxidized “mill scale,” which needs to be washed away to restore a shiny surface finish.

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Cutting or Machining

Stainless steel is cut to a specified shape and size. The stainless steel can be sheared with circular knives, sawed with high-speed blades, or blanked with punches.

Specification Of SS 316L Square Bar

Specifications ASTM A276, A479 / ASME SA276, SA479
Range 3.17 MM TO 350 MM DIA
Diameter 25mm to 152mm
Tolerance h8, h9(DIN 671), h10, h11, ASTM A484, DIN 1013.
Finish Bright, Polish & Black.
Form Square
Condition Cold Drawn & Polished Cold Drawn, Centreless Ground & Polished
Other Services Machining (CNC), Centreless Grinding (CG), Heat Treatment, Anneling, Pickling, Polish, Rolling, Forging, Cutting, Bending, Minor Fabrication

Types Of Stainless Steel 316L Square Bars

Hot Rolled Square Bar

Hot Rolled Square Bar

Cold Rolled Square Bar

Cold Rolled Square Bar

Forged Square Bar

Forged Square Bar

Other Types Of Stainless Steel 316L Square Bar

  • 316L Stainless Steel Forged Square Bars
  • 8mm 316L Square Stainless Steel Bar
  • ASTM A276 SS 316L Square Bar
  • Stainless Steel 316L Hot Rolled Square Bar
  • SS 316L Bearing Quality Square Bar
  • Cold Drawn Stainless Steel 316L Square Bar
  • 316L Stainless Steel Solid Square Bar
  • 316L Stainless Steel Square Bar
  • UNS S31603 Square Bars

Stainless Steel 316L Square Bars Equivalent Grades

STANDARD UNS WNR. AFNOR EN JIS BS GOST
SS 316L S31603 1.4404 / 1.4435 Z3CND17‐11‐02 / Z3CND18‐14‐03 X2CrNiMo17-12-2 / X2CrNiMo18-14-3 SUS 316L 316S11 / 316S13 03Ch17N14M3 / 03Ch17N14M2

Chemical Composition of SS 316L Square Bars

C Mn Si P S Cr Mo Ni N
316L
(S31603)
0.03
max
2.0
max
0.75
max
0.045
max
0.03
max
min: 16.0
max: 18.0
min: 2.0
max: 3.0
min: 10.0
max: 14.0
0.10
max

Mechanical Properties of SS 316L Square Bars

Grade Tensile Strength
ksi (min)
Yield Strength
0.2% ksi (min)
Elongation % Hardness (Brinell) MAX Hardness
(Rockwell B) MAX
316L (S31603) 70 25 40 217 95

Stainless Steel Square Bars Technical Information

SS 316L Square Bar Industrial Application

Electrical Industry

Automotive Industry

Construction Industry

Defence Industry

Pharmaceutical Industry

Petroleum Industry

Petrochemical Industry

Milk & Dairy Industry

Export & Supply Destination of SS 316L Square Bars

France, Denmark, Ukraine, Netherlands, Serbia, Russia, Switzerland, Lithuania, Turkey, Portugal, Moldova, Sweden, Greece, Luxembourg, Monaco, Hungary, Czechia/Czech Republic, Latvia, United Kingdom, Norway, Ireland, Azerbaijan, Slovakia, Estonia, Cyprus, Austria, Italy, Spain, Bulgaria, Belgium, Germany, Belarus, Croatia, Finland, Romania, Poland, Liechtenstein, Malta.

Malaysia, Kuwait, Turkey, Nepal, China, Iran, Israel, Armenia, Saudi Arabia, British, Bangladesh, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Qatar, Bhutan, Jordan, Indonesia, Russia, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Macau, Egypt, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Philippines, Lebanon, Vietnam, Iraq, Taiwan, Azerbaijan, Thailand, Kyrgyzstan, India, Afghanistan, Hong Kong, Maldives, Myanmar, Oman, Mongolia.

Libya, Eswatini, Seychelles, Mauritius, Madagascar, Kenya, Angola, Central African Republic, Namibia, Gambia, Botswana, Niger, Tunisia, Cameroon, Uganda, Tanzania, Senegal, Egypt, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Burundi, Ethiopia, Liberia, Rwanda, Burkina Faso, Morocco, Mozambique, Algeria, Mauritania, South Africa.

Canada, Nicaragua, Guyana, Guatemala, Antigua and Barbuda, Ecuador, Barbados, Dominica, Honduras, Venezuela, Brazil, Panama, Argentina, Mexico, Suriname, United States of America, Uruguay, Dominican Republic, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Paraguay, Trinidad and Tobago, Bahamas, Haiti, Belize, Cuba, Jamaica, Peru, Saint Lucia, Colombia, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Grenada, Chile, El Salvador.