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New ASTM A484/A484M 2011 Edition for Stainless Steel is now available

The new 2011 Edition of ASTM A484/A484M is now available from Document Center Inc.  Titled “Standard Specification for General Requirements for Stainless Steel Bars, Billets, and Forgings,” the specification is widely used for bars, shapes, forgings, and billets or other semi-finished materials, except wire, for forging.

It covers stainless steel in the following conditions: (1) hot-worked; (2) hot-worked and annealed; (3) hot-worked, annealed and cold-worked; or (4) hot-worked, annealed, and heat-treated.  Product analysis tolerances are required to conform to the required chemical compositions of carbon, manganese, phosphorus, sulfur, silicon, chromium, nickel, molybdenum, titanium, cobalt, columbium, tantalum, copper, aluminum, nitrogen, tungsten, vanadium, and selenium.

The materials covered are heat treated and austenitic stainless steels and austenitic-ferritic grades.  It is expected that they  will be furnished in the solution annealed condition.  Additionally,  conformance to the required values of temperature, permitted annealing procedure, quenching, and rapid cooling are specified.

The following ASTM metal standards are referenced in this document:

ASTM-A262 Practices for Detecting Susceptibility to Intergranular Attack in Austenitic Stainless Steels

ASTM A276, Standard Specification for Stainless Steel Bars and Shapes

ASTM A314, Standard Specification for Stainless Steel Billets and Bars for Forging

ASTM A370 Test Methods and Definitions for Mechanical Testing of Steel Products

ASTM A473, Standard Specification for Stainless Steel Forging

ASTM A479/A479M, Standard Specification for Stainless Steel Bars and Shapes for Use in Boilers and Other Pressure Vessels

ASTM A480/A480M Specification for General Requirements for Flat-Rolled Stainless and Heat-Resisting Steel Plate, Sheet, and Strip

ASTM A555/A555M Specification for General Requirements for Stainless Steel Wire and Wire Rods

ASTM A564/A564M, Standard Specification for Hot-Rolled and Cold-Finished Age-Hardening Stainless Steel Bars and Shapes

ASTM A565/A565M, Standard Specification for Martensitic Stainless Steel Bars for High-Temperature Service

ASTM A582/A582M, Standard Specification for Free-Machining Stainless Steel Bars

ASTM A638/A638M, Standard Specification for Precipitation Hardening Iron Base Superalloy Bars, Forgings, and Forging Stock for High-Temperature Service

ASTM A700 Practices for Packaging, Marking, and Loading Methods for Steel Products for Shipment

ASTM A705/A705M, Standard Specification for Age-Hardening Stainless Steel Forgings

ASTM A751 Test Methods, Practices, and Terminology for Chemical Analysis of Steel Products

ASTM A831/A831M, Standard Specification for Austenitic and Martensitic Stainless Steel Bars, Billets, and Forgings for Liquid Metal Cooled Reactor Core Components (Withdrawn 2005)

ASTM E112 Test Methods for Determining Average Grain Size

ASTM E139 Test Methods for Conducting Creep, Creep-Rupture, and Stress-Rupture Tests of Metallic Materials

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New ASTM A484/A484M 2011 Edition on Standard Specification for General Requirements for Stainless Steel Bars, Billets, and Forgings Released

ASTM A484 / A484M 2011 Edition, titled Standard Specification for General Requirements for Stainless Steel Bars, Billets, and Forgings, has just been released.  The new issue is 13 pages in length.

This specification covers general requirements that apply to wrought stainless steel bars, shapes, forgings, and billets or other semi-finished materials, except wire, for forging. The following conditions are covered: (1) hot-worked; (2) hot-worked and annealed; (3) hot-worked, annealed and cold-worked; or (4) hot-worked, annealed, and heat-treated. It additionally provides for product analysis tolerances confirming conformation to the required chemical compositions of carbon, manganese, phosphorus, sulfur, silicon, chromium, nickel, molybdenum, titanium, cobalt, columbium, tantalum, copper, aluminum, nitrogen, tungsten, vanadium, and selenium. Additionally,  materials shall be heat treated and austenitic stainless steels and austenitic-ferritic grades shall be furnished in the solution annealed condition and shall conform to the required values of temperature, permitted annealing procedure, quenching, and rapid cooling.

This is another standard that covers both metric and inch-pound units of measurement.  The values stated in either SI (metric) units or inch-pound units are to be regarded separately and cannot be mixed.  Combining values from the two systems may result in non-conformance with the standard.  Therefore, unless the order specifies an “M” designation, the material shall be furnished to inch-pound units.

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