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temperatures make it useful for many applications in the
μΩ-m................................................1.03
heat-treating industry. It is used for retorts, muffles,
roller hearths and other furnace components and for
heat-treating baskets and trays. Curie Temperature, °F .......................................................-192
In the aeronautical field, INCONEL alloy 600 is °C .......................................................-124
used for a variety of engine and airframe components
which must withstand high temperatures. Examples are Permeability at 200 oersted (15.9 kA/m) .........................1.010
lockwire, exhaust liners and turbine seals.
INCONEL alloy 600 is used in the electronic field
for such parts as cathode-ray tube spiders, thyratron Mechanical Properties
grids, tube support members and springs.
The alloy is a standard material of construction for As indicated by the nominal mechanical properties
nuclear reactors. It has excellent resistance to corrosion listed in Table 6, a broad range of strength and hardness
by high-purity water, and no indication of chloride-ion is obtainable with INCONEL alloy 600, depending on
stress-corrosion cracking in reactor water systems has form and condition. In the annealed condition, the alloy
been detected. For nuclear applications, the alloy is exhibits moderate yield strengths of 25,000 to 50,000
produced to exacting specifications and is designated psi (172 to 345 MPa). Yield strengths in that range,
INCONEL alloy 600T. combined with elongations of 55 to 35%, permit the
alloy to be fabricated with little difficulty. Heavily cold-
Table 1 - Limiting Chemical Composition, %
worked material, however, can have tensile strengths as
high as 220,000 psi (1517 MPa).
Nickel (plus Cobalt)....................................................72.0 min.
Values for properties reported in this publication
Chromium ..................................................................14.0-17.0
are typical but are not suitable for specification
Iron ..........................................................................6.00-10.00 purposes unless stated as minimum or maximum.
Carbon ......................................................................0.15 max.
Manganese ................................................................1.00 max
Publication Number SMC-027
Sulfur.......................................................................0.015 max. Copyright © Special Metals Corporation, 2008 (Sept 08)
Silicon .......................................................................0.50 max.
INCOLOY, INCOFLUX, INCONEL, INCO-WELD and
Copper ......................................................................0.50 max. 800HT are trademarks of the Special Metals Corporation
group of companies.
INCONEL ® alloy 600
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INCONEL ® alloy 600
a
Values shown are composites for various product sizes and therefore are not suitable for specification purposes.
b
Properties shown are for sizes 0.0625- to 0.250-in. (1.6 to 6.4 mm) dia. Properties for other sizes may vary from these.
Temperature, °C
100 300 400 500 600 700
130 0 200
70 500
60
400
50
Stress, ksi
300
40
30 200
20 Elongation
100
10
0
0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400
Temperature, °F
3
INCONEL ® alloy 600
100
Table 9 - Room-Temperature Properties of Hot-Rolled Plate 600
80
Heat Tensile Yield Strength Reduction of Area
Reduction Hardness, 60
Treatmenta Strength (0.2% Offset) Elongation, 400
of Area, Rb
°F/1 °C/1 % 40
ksi MPa ksi MPa %
Stress, ksi
Elongation
hr hr 200
20
99.0
As-rolled As-rolled 682.6 50.2 346.1 42.0 55.5 87
0 0
1600 870 98.0 675.7 48.0 331.0 40.0 55.0 87 -450 -400 -300 -200 -100 0 100
1700 925 98.5 679.2 49.4 340.6 40.5 58.0 84 Temperature, °F
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INCONEL ® alloy 600
Temperature, °C
0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900
100 690
Temperature, °C
20 350 400 450 500 550 600 650
180 90 Tensile
Strength 600
170 80
500
Elongation, %
160 70
Hardness, Brinell
150
60 400
Stress, MPa
140 Yield Strength
50 (0.2% Offset)
130 300
Stress, ksi
40
Elongation
120
30 200
110
20
100 100
70 700 800 900 1000 1100 1200
Temperature, °F 10
110
700
Impact Strength and Ductility
100 Tensil
e Stre
ngth
INCONEL alloy 600 has good impact strength at room
90
600 temperature and retains virtually all of that strength at low
Elongation, %
80
temperatures; there is no tough-to-brittle transition with
decreasing temperature. Impact-strength values (Charpy
500
70 keyhole) for ½-in. (13-mm)- thick plate at room and low
Stress, MPa
300
40
Yield
Str
(0.2% ength 200
Table 12 - Impact Strength (Charpy Keyhole) of Plate
30 Offse
t)
a
Values are the average of three tests.
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INCONEL ® alloy 600
Fatigue Strength
Table 13 - Room-Temperature Impact Strength of Rod The room-temperature fatigue strength of material in
various conditions is shown in Table 16. The data were
Impact Strength obtained from rotating-beam tests using polished specimens.
Izod Notch Charpy U-Notch The fatigue strength of INCONEL alloy 600 at elevated
Condition temperatures is shown in Figure 6. The tests were performed
ft•lb J ft•lb J
on material having the following room-temperature
Cold-Drawn >120 >163 230 312 mechanical properties:
Cold-Drawn, Annealed 70-100 95-136 151 205
Hot-Rolled >120 >163 230 312 Tensile strength 106 ksi (730 MPa)
Hot-Rolled, Annealed 100-120 136-163 - - Yield strength (0.2% offset) 52 ksi (360 MPa)
Elongation 39%
Reduction of Area 68.6%
Table 15 - Shear Strength of Cold-Rolled Sheet and Strip Table 16 - Room-Temperature Fatigue Strength
a
525°F (274°C) 3 hr.
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INCONEL ® alloy 600
2.5
Fine Grain, Hard
2.0 Fine Grain, Soft
Reversed Strain, %
Coarse Grain, Hard
Table 17 - Low-Cyclea Fatigue of Annealed Rod Coarse Grain, Soft
1.5
70
a 450
Table 18 - Room-Temperature Low-Cycle Fatigue of Forgings
60 400
Stress, ksi
Condition
Stress, MPa
1000 Cycles 10,000 Cycles 50,000 Cycles 300
As-Forged ±1.25 ±0.50 ±0.35 40
250
Stress-Relieved
±1.25 ±0.47 ±0.27 30 Fine Grain, Hard 200
1400°F (760°C)/4 hr Fine Grain, Soft
Coarse Grain, Hard 150
a
20 Coarse Grain, Soft
675 cycles/hr. 100
10
105 106 107 108
Temperature, °C Cycles to Failure
0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000
50 Figure 8. Rotating-beam fatigue strength of forgings in four
325 conditions.
45
300
Fatigue Strength (108 cycles), MPa
Fatigue Strength (108 cycles), ksi
40 275
35
250 Creep and Rupture Properties
225
30 200 Creep properties of INCONEL alloy 600 in two conditions
25 175 are shown for temperatures to 2100°F (1150°C) in Table 20.
150 Figure 9 gives creep rates for hot-rolled material at
20
125 intermediate temperatures.
15 100 Rupture properties for material in various conditions are
75 presented in Table 21. The rupture life of hot-rolled material
10
50 at temperatures of 1000° to 1300°F (540° to 705°C) is
5
25 shown in Figure 10.
0
0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 1600 1800 2000 INCONEL alloy 600 does not embrittle after long
Temperature, °F exposure to high temperatures. The room-temperature
mechanical properties of specimens of cold-drawn rod after
Figure 6. Rotating-beam fatigue strength (108 cycles) of cold- creep testing are listed in Tables 22 and 23.
drawn, annealed rod at elevated temperatures.
Yield Strength
Tensile Strength Reduction of Grain Size
Condition (0.2% Offset) Elongation, % Hardness, Rb
Area, %
ksi MPa ksi MPa in. mm
Fine Grain, Hard 103.0 710 64.6 445 35.0 60.3 93.0 0.0028a 0.0711
Fine Grain, Soft 92.0 634 40.5 279 44.0 61.0 83.5 0.0028a 0.0711
Coarse Grain, Hard 102.0 703 74.7 515 28.0 56.7 94.0 0.006-0.02b 0.152-0.51b
Coarse Grain, Soft 86.4 596 32.7 225 61.7 50.7 76.5 0.006-0.02b 0.152-0.51b
a
Average diameter.
b
Mixed grain size.
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INCONEL ® alloy 600
100
°C)
1000°F (538
°C)
1100°F (593
)
1200°F (649°C
°C)
1300°F (704 100
10
Stress, MPa
Stress, ksi
1500°F (816°C)
1600°F (871°C)
C) 10
1700°F (927°
1
82°C)
1800°F (9
)
(1093°C
2000°F
)
(1149°C
2100°F
0.1
10-2 10-1 100 101
Minimum Creep Rate, %/1000 h
Figure 9. Creep rates of plate in the as-hot-rolled condition (1000°F-1300°F (538°C-704°C) data) and in the hot-rolled and solution-
annealed (2050°F (1121°C)/2 h) condition (1500°F-2000°F (816°C-1093°C) data).
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INCONEL ® alloy 600
100
1000
°F (5
38°C
)
1100°F
(593°C
)
1200°F
(649°C
) 100
1350°F 1300
(732°C °F (70
) 4°C)
10
1500°F
(816°C
) 1400°F
1600 (760°C
°F (87 )
Stress, MPa
1°C)
Stress, ksi
1800
°F (9
82°C
)
2000 10
°F (1
093°
C)
1
0.1 1
10-1 100 101 102 103 104 105
Rupture Life, Hours
Figure 10. Rupture life of plate in the as-hot-rolled condition (1000°F-1300°F (538°C-704°C) data) and in the hot-rolled and solution-
annealed (2050°F (1121°C)/2h) condition (1350°F-2000°F (732°C-1093°C) data).
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INCONEL ® alloy 600
a
Cold-drawn rod, annealed 1750°F (954°C)/3 hr, A.C.
Stress-Corrosion Cracking
Austenitic chromium-nickel stainless steels sometimes fail catastrophically by stress-corrosion cracking. This type of failure
is generally associated with an environment containing chlorides as well as with stress, water, dissolved oxygen, and other
factors. The tendency of austenitic alloys to crack transgranularly in chloride solutions decreases as the nickel content of the
alloy is increased. INCONEL alloy 600, with a minimum nickel content of 72%, is virtually immune to chloride-ion stress-
corrosion cracking.
INCONEL alloy 600 is subject to stress-corrosion cracking in high-temperature, high-strength caustic alkalies. Material
for such service should be fully stress-relieved at 1650°F/1 hr or 1450°F/4 hr (900°C/1 hr or 790°C/4 hr) prior to use, and
operating stresses should be kept to a minimum.
Stress-corrosion cracking may occur also in the presence of mercury at elevated temperatures. The recommendations
given for caustic-alkali service should be followed if the alloy is used in an application which involves contact with mercury
at high temperatures.
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INCONEL ® alloy 600
Microstructure
INCONEL alloy 600 is a stable, austenitic solid-solution
alloy. The only precipitated phases present in the
microstructure are titanium nitrides, titanium carbides (or Table 24 - Gas Carburization Tests (100 h)
solutions of those two compounds commonly called in Hydrogen/2% Methane
cyanonitrides), and chromium carbides.
Titanium nitrides and carbides are visible in polished Weight Gain, mg/cm2
microspecimens at magnifications of 50X or greater. They Alloy
1700°F (925°C) 2000°F (1095°C)a
appear as small, randomly dispersed, angular-shaped
inclusions. The color varies from orange-yellow for the INCONEL alloy 600 2.66 12.30
nitride to gray-lavender for the carbide. These nitrides and INCONEL alloy 601 2.72 16.18
cyanonitrides are stable at all temperatures below the INCOLOY alloy 800HT 4.94 21.58
melting point and are unaffected by heat treatment. Type 330 Stainless Steel 6.42 24.00
At temperatures between 1000° and 1800°F (540° and
a
980°C), chromium carbides precipitate out of the solid Atmosphere also contained 5% argon.
solution. Precipitation occurs both at the grain boundaries
and in the matrix. Because of the grain-boundary
precipitation, the corrosion behavior of INCONEL alloy 600
is similar to that of other austenitic alloys in that the material +100
can be made susceptible to intergranular attack in some
aggressive media (sensitized) by exposure to temperatures
of 1000° to 1400°F (540° to 760°C). At temperatures above INCONEL alloy 600
0
1400°F (760°C) the predominant carbide is Cr7C3. Below
1400°F (760°C) the Cr23C6 carbide is also present. INCO
LOY
alloy
800H
High-Temperature Applications -100 Type 309
T
Stainless Steel
Weight Change, mg/cm2
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INCONEL ® alloy 600
625
lloy
INCONEL alloy 600 is readily fabricated by either hot or ELa
400 ON
INC
cold working and can be joined by standard welding, Stee
l
less
brazing, and soldering processes. Although the alloy can be e 304
Stain
350 Typ
hardened and strengthened only by cold work, a wide range y 301
18 L allo
of mechanical properties can be obtained in finished parts by llo
y7 0 R A NICKE
La -75 DU
combining cold work and thermal treatments. E yX
300 llo
C ON EL
a
-500
IN ON lloy K
EL a
INC MON
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INCONEL ® alloy 600
Machining
INCONEL alloy 600 is slightly more machinable than Type 304 stainless steel and slightly less machinable than Type 303
free-machining stainless steel.
The alloy is best handled on heavy-duty equipment using cutting tools large and heavy enough to withstand the loads and
to quickly dissipate the heat generated. Tools must be sharp and have the proper geometry. More information on machining
can be obtained from the Special Metals Corporation website, www. specialmetals.com, in the publication, “Machining.”
Welding
INCONEL alloy 600 is readily joined by conventional welding processes. Welding materials for joining alloy 600 are
INCONEL Welding Electrode 182 for shielded metal-arc welding*, INCONEL Filler Metal 82 for gas tungsten-arc and gas
metal-arc welding, and INCONEL Filler Metal 82 and INCOFLUX 4 Submerged Arc Flux for the submerged-arc process.
Table 26 compares thermal-expansion rates of weld metals with those of wrought alloy 600. Impact-strength values for
all-weld-metal deposits of INCONEL Welding Electrode 182 are listed in Table 27.
Room-temperature tensile properties of welds made with INCONEL Filler Metal 82 and Welding Electrode 182 are
given in Table 28. High-temperature tensile properties of welds made with those materials are shown in Figures 13 and 14.
Stress-rupture properties of weld metals are given in Table 29.
Welds made with INCONEL Welding Electrode 182 may have decreased ductility after extended exposure to
temperatures of 1000° to 1400°F (540° to 760°).
More information on welding can be found on the Special Metals Corporation website, www.specialmetals.com, in the
publication, “Joining.”
*For maximum stress-rupture properties in shielded metal-arc welds at temperatures above 1200°F (650°C), INCO-WELD A Electrode is recommended.
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INCONEL ® alloy 600
a a
Values at 70°F (21°C) and -110°F (-79°C) are the average of three tests; 0.505-in. (12.83 mm)-dia. specimen.
b
value at -320°F (-196°C) is the average of two tests. 0.252-in. (6.40-mm)-dia. specimen.
Temperature, °C Temperature, °C
0 200 400 600 800 1000 0 200 400 600 800 1000
100 100
600 600
Tensile
Tensile Strength Strength
80 80
500 500
All-Weld-Metal
60 400 60 All-Weld-Metal 400
Stress, MPa
Stress, MPa
Stress, ksi
Stress, ksi
20
20
100 100
0 0
0 400 800 1200 1600 2000 0 0
0 400 800 1200 1600 2000
Temperature, °F
Temperature, °F
Figure 13. High-temperature tensile properties of welds made with Figure 14. High-temperature tensile properties of welds made with
INCONEL FIller Metal 82. INCONEL Welding Electrode 182.
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INCONEL ® alloy 600
Rod, Bar, Wire and Forging Stock - ASTM B 166/ASME SB 166, ASTM B 564/ASME SB 564, ASME Code Cases 1827
and N-253, SAE/AMS 5665 and 5687, BS 3075NA14 and 3076NA14, DIN 17752, 17753 and 17754, ISO 9723, 9724, and
9725, MIL-DTL-23229, QQ-W-390.
Plate, Sheet and Strip - ASTM B 168/ASME SB 168, ASTM B 906/ASME SB 906, ASME Code Cases 1827 and N-253,
SAE/AMS 5540, BS 3072NA14 and 3073NA14, DIN 17750, ISO 6208, EN 10095, MIL-DTL-23228.
Pipe and Tube - ASTM B 167/ASME SB 167, ASTM B 163/ASME SB 163, ASTM B 516/ASME SB 516, ASTM B
517/ASME SB 517, ASTM B 751/ASME SB 751, ASTM B 775/ASME SB 775, ASTM B 829/ASME SB 829, ASME
Code Cases 1827, N-20, N-253, and N-576, SAE/AMS 5580, DIN 17751, ISO 6207, MIL-DTL-23227
Other - ASTM B 366/ASME SB 366, DIN 17742, ISO 4955A, AFNOR NC15Fe
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