ASMR Metals Standards & Training

ASTM Metal Standards

With over 30,000 volunteer members from more than 140 countries, ASTM plays a pivotal role in setting standards that ensure the quality and safety of materials across various industries, including metals, construction, plastics, textiles, and petroleums.

ASTM safety standards are essential for evaluating the material, chemical, mechanical, and metallurgical properties of metals. These standards along with those from other international standards developments organizations such as AENOR, AASHTO, API, and others drive innovation and safety for industry.

Below you will find a list of the ASTM metals standards, industry training and relevant technical publications.

These include standards for copper, steel, iron, nonferrous metals, light metals, metal powders, metallic coatings and more including magnetic properties, electrical conductivity, reactivity and refractory.

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Steel, Stainless Steel and Related Alloys

ASTM metals standards cover the specifications for steel rails and accessories including standard tee rails, crane rails, girder rails, joint bars, tie plates, track spikes, screw spikes, and track nuts and bolts.

Popular standards in this section (Not an indication of availability in Spanish)

A53/A53M Standard Specification for Pipe, Steel, Black and Hot-Dipped, Zinc-Coated, Welded and Seamless

A240 /A240M Standard Specification for Chromium and Chromium-Nickel Stainless Steel Plate, Sheet, and Strip for Pressure Vessels and for General Applications

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

A967/A967M Standard Specification for Chemical Passivation Treatments for Stainless Steel Parts

Steel and Stainless Steel Standards From ASTM

Steel Rails And Accessories

ASTM metals standards cover the specifications for steel rails and accessories including standard tee rails, crane rails, girder rails, joint bars, tie plates, track spikes, screw spikes, and track nuts and bolts.

Structural Steel For Bridges, Buildings, Rolling Stock And Ships

ASTM metals standards cover specification requirements for rolled steel plates, shapes, sheet piling and bars for structural use for bridges, buildings, ships, rolling stock, and general construction applications.

Steel Rod And Wire

ASTM metals standards cover the classifications, specifications, test methods, and the engineering use of alloyed and plain carbon steel rods and wire, including uncoated and non-metallic coated spring wire.

Steel Reinforcement

ASTM metals standards cover the development and maintenance of product specifications for (1) steel reinforcement for reinforced, prestressed, and precast concrete for structures, highway, railroad and masonry construction, and for all forms and grades of steel reinforcing bars, bar mats, wire, welded wire fabric, prestressing wire, bars and strand, can coated reinforcement and (2) steel fibers for fiber reinforced concrete and over the development and maintenance of test methods for the evaluation, inspection, and quality control of such products

Steel Forgings And Billets

ASTM metals standards cover Steel forgings, Steel blooms, billets, and slabs for forgings. Power Generation and Nuclear Forgings – This section has jurisdiction over standards for the manufacture and testing of forgings used for gas and steam turbines, generators, pressure vessels, and nuclear applications.

General Industrial And Railroad Forgings

This section is responsible for writing and maintaining standard specifications for forgings covering a wide range of sizes and applications and includes the forging standards. This section has the responsibility for managing the writing and maintenance activities for forging examination and testing practices.

Carbon Steel Tubular Products

Standards covering tubular products of carbon steels

Stainless And Alloy Steel Tubular Products

Specifications and standards covering tubular products of stainless and alloy steels.

Steel Plates For Boilers And Pressure Vessels

Specifications for carbon and alloy rolled steel plates for boilers, pressure vessels and other components. Specifications for steel plates that have material properties such as predictable low- and high-temperature short-time mechanical properties, notch toughness, low transition temperatures, creep resistance, and weldability.

Mechanical And Chemical Testing And Processing Methods Of Steel Products And Processes

Standards for mechanical and chemical testing evaluation of testing laboratories, processing methods, and other testing.

Bars

Standards pertaining to carbon and alloy steel bars in the as-rolled, cold finished, or heat-treated conditions for general engineering applications. The subcommittee also maintains standards for some products manufactured from steel bars, such as fence posts and industrial springs.

Methods Of Corrosion Testing

Standards for acceptance corrosion testing of and the descaling and cleaning of stainless steels and related alloys

Flat Rolled And Wrought Stainles Steel Products

Specifications covering wrought plate, sheet, strip, billet, bar, wire, structural shapes, and general purpose forgings of stainless steel and related alloys.

Steel Castings

Standards for steel, stainless steel, and related alloys in the form of castings for pressure containing parts and general engineering applications for use in benign as well as corrosive environments at low, ambient, and elevated temperatures.

Sheet Steel And Strip

Carbon, high-strength low-alloy, high strength, and alloy hot- and cold-rolled steel sheets and strip and cold-rolled carbon spring steel. Responsibilities of the subcommittee include the classification, specification requirements, methods of test, and questions of utility and related subjects dealing with such materials.

Tin Mill Products

Specification requirements, test methods, and related subjects pertaining to tin mill products. Tin mill products include electrolytic tin plate; electrolytic tin coated, cold-rolled sheet; black plate; black plate electrolytic chromium coated; and similar products.

Steel Forgings And Wrought Fittings For Piping Applications And Bolting Materials For Piping And Special Purpose Applications

Standards for steel forgings, flanges, forged valve bodies, and wrought fittings for piping applications in the utility, petroleum, chemical, nuclear, pressure vessel, and similar industries and bolting materials for high- and low-temperature use in piping and special purpose applications in these industries.

Steel Bolting Materials For Piping And Special Purpose Applications –

Standards for steel bolting and bolting materials for high- and low-temperature use in piping and special purpose applications in the utility, petroleum, chemical, nuclear, pressure vessel, and similar industries.

Wrought Steel Fittings For Piping Applications

Standards for wrought steel fittings for piping applications in the utility, petroleum, chemical, nuclear, pressure vessel, and similar industries.

Steel Forgings For Piping Applications

Steel forgings, flanges, and forged valve bodies for piping applications in the utility, petroleum, chemical, nuclear, pressure vessel, and similar industries.

Steel Chain

Specifications and practices for steel chain and related components. This includes welded link chain, stamped metal chain, weldless wire wrapped chain, sling assemblies, and common chain attachments and components.

Bearing Steels

Steels commonly used for ball and roller bearings.

Tool Steels

Standards and specifications for carbon, alloy, and high speed tool steels. The forms comprise rolled bar, plate, bar cut from plate, bar shapes, billets, forgings, and cast tools. Such products are commonly produced by forging, rolling, drawing, or casting.

ASTM Iron Casting Standards

Include gray, malleable, ductile, white and compacted graphite iron. Standards for pipes, tubes and fittings made of iron castings may include requirement for joining the pipes, tubes and fittings and methods for protection of these pipes, tubes and fittings. Standards for couplings and gaskets used in joining pipes, tubes and fitting made of iron castings may include methods for testing and installation can also be found. Iron Castings standards include sections on grey and white iron castings, malleable and ductile iron castings, pipes and tubes, testing and gaskets and coupling for plumbing and sewer piping.

ASTM Standards in This Section Include:

  • A48/A48M Standard Specification for Gray Iron Castings
  • A74 Standard Specification for Cast Iron Soil Pipe and Fittings
  • A247 Standard Test Method for Evaluating the Microstructure of Graphite in Iron Castings
  • A532 Standard Specification for Abrasion-Resistant Cast Irons
  • A536 Standard Specification for Ductile Iron Castings

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