There are some ASTM specifications that are widely used across many industries and ASTM A580/A580m is one of those publications. So many of you will want to know that the new 2014 Edition for this standard has just been released. Titled “Standard Specification for Stainless Steel Wire,” the new edition replaces the 2013b version, which is now obsolete.
As you might expect, ASTM A580/A580m covers all kinds of stainless steel wire with the exception of free-machining types. This means that the requirements for round, square, octagon, hexagon and shape wire in coils can be found in this document.
As I noted in last Thursday’s posting, the dual designation (A580 and A580M) means that the specification provides measurements in both inch-pound and metric format. As always, you’ll need to choose one or the other when you use the document. It’s inappropriate to mix the two systems!
Requirements are provided in tabular format, listed by UNS (Unified Numbering System) numbers. This is the system for defining the chemical composition of various alloys by the use of a numbering scheme.
For those of you who use this document, you’ll be interested to know that the changes to the new edition can be primarily found in 2 sections. First, the requirements for grade UNS S31730 have been added to both Tables 1 and 2. Footnote A for table 2 has been expanded to explain ellipses.
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