BV AH40 Shipbuilding Steel

Grade BV AH40 is a kind of high tensile strength shipbuilding steel. Grade AH40 marine steel, BV AH40 shipbuilding steel is with a specified minimum yield point of 57ksi (390MPa). Shanghai Katalor can offer BV AH40 shipbuilding steel with various sizes, shapes and large inventory. BV Grade AH40 shipbuilding Steel plates, bars, angle steel, bulb flats offered by Katalor Industry can be certificated by Bureau Veritas (BV).

Main Classification Society:

American Bureau of Shipping: ABS
Bureau Veritas: BV
China Classification Society: CCS
Det Norske Veritas: DNV
Germanischer Lloyd: GL.
Korean Register of Shipping: KR
Lloyd’s Register of Shipping: LR
Nippon Kaiji Kyokai: NK
Registro Italiano Navale : RINA

BV AH40 Steel Plates Specification:

Thickness: 4mm to 260mm,
Width: 1200mm to 4000mm
Length: 3000mm to 18000mm.

BV AH40 Shipbuilding Steel Equivalent

ABS	BV	CCS	DNV	GL	KR	LR	NK	RINA
ABS AH40	BV AH40	CCS AH40	DNV AH40	GL AH40	KR AH40	LR AH40	NK AH40	RINA AH40

BV AH40 Shipbuilding Steel Chemical Requirements (%)

C max	Mn	Si	P max	S max	Al max.	Cb	V	Ti max.	Cu max.	Cr max.	Ni max.	Mo max.
0.18	0.90-1.60	0.10-0.50	0.035	0.035	0.015	0.02-0.05	0.05-0.10	0.02	0.35	0.20	0.40	0.08

BV AH40 Shipbuilding Steel Tensile Requirements

Yield Strength (MPa) min.	Tensile Strength (MPa)	Elongation in 8 in. min. %	Elongation in 2 in. min. %
390	510-650	19	22

Shipbuilding steel plate BV Grade AH40 is the Hull structural steel, marine steel. Grade AH40 marine steel plate has good toughness properties, higher strength, strong corrosion-resistance, the processing properties, and welding properties. In the steel standard ASTM A131/A131M, offshore steel grade ASTM A131 Grade AH40 is the best equivalent steel grade with BV Grade AH40.