Mangalloy, also called manganese steel or Hadfield steel, is an alloy steel containing an average of around 13%

manganese Manganese is a chemical element with the symbol Mn and atomic number 25. It is a hard, brittle, silvery metal, often found in minerals in combination with iron. Manganese is a transition metal with a multifaceted array of industrial alloy use ...

. Mangalloy is known for its high impact strength and resistance to abrasion once in its work-hardened state.

Material properties

Mangalloy is made by

alloying An alloy is a mixture of chemical elements of which at least one is a metal. Unlike chemical compounds with metallic bases, an alloy will retain all the properties of a metal in the resulting material, such as electrical conductivity, ductility ...

steel, containing 0.8 to 1.25% carbon, with 11 to 15%

. Mangalloy is a unique non-magnetic

steel Steel is an alloy made up of iron with added carbon to improve its strength and fracture resistance compared to other forms of iron. Many other elements may be present or added. Stainless steels that are corrosion- and oxidation-resistant ty ...

with extreme anti-wear properties. The material is very resistant to abrasion and will achieve up to three times its surface

hardness In materials science, hardness (antonym: softness) is a measure of the resistance to localized plastic deformation induced by either mechanical indentation or abrasion. In general, different materials differ in their hardness; for example hard ...

during conditions of

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, without any increase in

brittleness A material is brittle if, when subjected to stress, it fractures with little elastic deformation and without significant plastic deformatio