Weathering steel
A steel alloy family that forms a stable rust-colored oxide layer on exposure; the trade names are not the material.
How it connects
Weathering steel is a kind of Steel.
Weathering steel is filed under Metal.
Other kinds of Steel: Carbon steel, Galvanised steel and Stainless steel.
In other taxonomies
- Weathering steelUniclass, Ma_40_52_83_96nearly the same
- weathering steelWikidata, Q1024124nearly the same
- Getty AATno equivalent
For developersRecord, identifiers and graph
Where it sits
One rule per term beside it, taller for each narrower term
Weathering steel
4 terms, Stainless steel to Galvanised steel
Record
- Seen in the wild
- corten · Cor-Ten
- Broader
- Steel
- Provenance
- referencedWikidata Q1024124 weathering steel, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1024124, read 11 Sep 2026
For machines
Permanent address
/id/material/weathering-steelKnowledge graph
Stored incoming and outgoing relations from the public V1 graph. Ancestors, descendants, and siblings are labelled as derived views rather than stored facts.
- has-conceptMaterialincoming
- has-conceptMaterialincoming
- narrowerSteelincoming
- belongs-to-axisMaterialoutgoing
- belongs-to-facetMaterialoutgoing
- broaderSteeloutgoing
Derived hierarchy views
- ancestor (derived)Steeloutgoing
- ancestor (derived)Ferrous metaloutgoing
- ancestor (derived)Metaloutgoing
- sibling (derived)Carbon steeloutgoing
- sibling (derived)Galvanised steeloutgoing
- sibling (derived)Stainless steeloutgoing
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | How close |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uniclass | Ma_40_52_83_96 | Weathering steel | nearly the same |
| Wikidata | Q1024124 | weathering steel | nearly the same |
| Getty AAT | no equivalent | searched 22 Oct 2026Weathering steel via https://vocab.getty.edu/sparql; luc:term search, AAT preferred labels and English scope notes read | none |