• Stainless and Engineering Steel Bar and Wire Product Specifications

Stainless Steel Bar

StandardDescription
AS 2837Wrought alloy steels – stainless steel bars and semi-finished products.
ASTM A276Stainless and heat resisting steel bars and shapes.
ASTM A564/A564MHot rolled and cold finished age-hardening stainless and heat resisting steel bars and shapes.
ASTM A582Free machining stainless and heat resisting steel bars and hot rolled or cold finished.
ASTM A193/A193MAlloy steels and stainless steel bolting materials for high temperature service.
ASTM A194/A194MCarbon and alloy steel nuts for bolts for high pressure and high temperature service.
ASTM A320/A320MAlloy steel bolting materials for low temperature service.
ASTM A453/A453MBolting materials, high temperature 345 to 827MPa yield strength with expansion co-efficients comparable to austenitic steels.
ASTM A479/A479MStainless and heat resisting steel bars and shapes for use in boilers and other pressure vessels.
ASTM A484/A484MGeneral requirements for stainless and heat resisting steel bars, billets and forgings.
EN 10088-3Stainless steels – Part 3: Technical delivery conditions for semi-finished products, bars, rods and sections for general purposes.

Stainless Steel Hollow Bar

StandardDescription
ASTM A511Seamless stainless steel mechanical tubing.
ASTM A450/A450MGeneral requirements for carbon, ferritic alloy and austenitic alloy tubes.
DIN 17 456General purpose seamless circular stainless steel tubes – ferritic and austenitic.

Stainless Steel Wire

StandardDescription
ASTM A313Chromium-nickel stainless and heat resisting steel spring wire.
ASTM A493Stainless and heat resisting steel for cold heading and cold forging wire.
ASTM 580Stainless and heat resisting steel wire.
ASTM 581Free machining stainless and heat resisting steel wire and wire rods.
ASTM A555/A555MGeneral requirements for stainless and heat resisting steel wire and wire rods.
JIS G4309Stainless steel wires.
JIS G4314Stainless steel wires for springs.
Welding wire
AWS A5.4Specification for covered corrosion resisting chromium and chromium-nickel steel welding electrodes.
AWS A5.9Specification for corrosion resisting chromium and chromium-nickel steel bare and composite metal cored and stranded welding electrodes and welding rods.

Carbon Bar Steel Products

StandardDescription
AS 1442Carbon steels and carbon manganese steels – hot rolled and semi-finished product.
AS 1443Carbon steels and carbon manganese steels – cold finished bars.
BS 970Wrought steels for mechanical and allied engineering purposes.
ASTM A576Steel bars, carbon, hot wrought, special quality.
JIS G4051Carbon steels for machine structural use.

Carbon and Alloy Steel Hollow Bar

StandardDescription
ASTM A519Seamless carbon and alloy steel mechanical tubing.
ISO 2938Hollow bars for machining.
DIN 1629Seamless circular unalloyed steel tubes – special purposes.
BS 970Wrought steels for mechanical and allied engineering purposes.

Low Alloy Steel Bar

StandardDescription
ASTM 1444Wrought alloy steels – standard and hardenability (H) series and hardened and tempered to designated mechanical strengths.
ASTM A331Steel bars, alloy, cold finished.
ASTM A434Steel bars, alloy, hot wrought or cold finished, quenched and tempered.
ASTM A29/A29MSteel bars, carbon and alloy, hot wrought and cold finished; general requirements.
BS 970Wrought steels for mechanical and allied engineering purposes.
ASTM A304Steel bars, alloy, subject to end quench hardenability requirements.

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