• Stainless and Engineering Steel Bar and Wire Product Specifications

Stainless Steel Bar

Standard Description
AS 2837 Wrought alloy steels – stainless steel bars and semi-finished products.
ASTM A276 Stainless and heat resisting steel bars and shapes.
ASTM A564/A564M Hot rolled and cold finished age-hardening stainless and heat resisting steel bars and shapes.
ASTM A582 Free machining stainless and heat resisting steel bars and hot rolled or cold finished.
ASTM A193/A193M Alloy steels and stainless steel bolting materials for high temperature service.
ASTM A194/A194M Carbon and alloy steel nuts for bolts for high pressure and high temperature service.
ASTM A320/A320M Alloy steel bolting materials for low temperature service.
ASTM A453/A453M Bolting materials, high temperature 345 to 827MPa yield strength with expansion co-efficients comparable to austenitic steels.
ASTM A479/A479M Stainless and heat resisting steel bars and shapes for use in boilers and other pressure vessels.
ASTM A484/A484M General requirements for stainless and heat resisting steel bars, billets and forgings.
EN 10088-3 Stainless steels – Part 3: Technical delivery conditions for semi-finished products, bars, rods and sections for general purposes.

Stainless Steel Hollow Bar

Standard Description
ASTM A511 Seamless stainless steel mechanical tubing.
ASTM A450/A450M General requirements for carbon, ferritic alloy and austenitic alloy tubes.
DIN 17 456 General purpose seamless circular stainless steel tubes – ferritic and austenitic.

Stainless Steel Wire

Standard Description
ASTM A313 Chromium-nickel stainless and heat resisting steel spring wire.
ASTM A493 Stainless and heat resisting steel for cold heading and cold forging wire.
ASTM 580 Stainless and heat resisting steel wire.
ASTM 581 Free machining stainless and heat resisting steel wire and wire rods.
ASTM A555/A555M General requirements for stainless and heat resisting steel wire and wire rods.
JIS G4309 Stainless steel wires.
JIS G4314 Stainless steel wires for springs.
Welding wire
AWS A5.4 Specification for covered corrosion resisting chromium and chromium-nickel steel welding electrodes.
AWS A5.9 Specification for corrosion resisting chromium and chromium-nickel steel bare and composite metal cored and stranded welding electrodes and welding rods.

Carbon Bar Steel Products

Standard Description
AS 1442 Carbon steels and carbon manganese steels – hot rolled and semi-finished product.
AS 1443 Carbon steels and carbon manganese steels – cold finished bars.
BS 970 Wrought steels for mechanical and allied engineering purposes.
ASTM A576 Steel bars, carbon, hot wrought, special quality.
JIS G4051 Carbon steels for machine structural use.

Carbon and Alloy Steel Hollow Bar

Standard Description
ASTM A519 Seamless carbon and alloy steel mechanical tubing.
ISO 2938 Hollow bars for machining.
DIN 1629 Seamless circular unalloyed steel tubes – special purposes.
BS 970 Wrought steels for mechanical and allied engineering purposes.

Low Alloy Steel Bar

Standard Description
ASTM 1444 Wrought alloy steels – standard and hardenability (H) series and hardened and tempered to designated mechanical strengths.
ASTM A331 Steel bars, alloy, cold finished.
ASTM A434 Steel bars, alloy, hot wrought or cold finished, quenched and tempered.
ASTM A29/A29M Steel bars, carbon and alloy, hot wrought and cold finished; general requirements.
BS 970 Wrought steels for mechanical and allied engineering purposes.
ASTM A304 Steel bars, alloy, subject to end quench hardenability requirements.

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