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AS 1572:2023
[Current]Copper and copper alloys — Seamless tubes for engineering purposes
AS 1572:2023 specifies requirements for round, square and rectangular seamless copper and copper alloy tubes for general purposes. It does not apply to tubes for heat exchangers or tubes for air-conditioning.
Published: 26/05/2023
Pages: 16
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Cited references
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Table of contents
Header
About this publication
Preface
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 Designation
4.1 Alloy designation
4.2 Temper designation
4.3 Dimension designation
5 Form and temper of tubes
5.1 Form
5.2 Temper
6 Chemical composition
6.1 General
6.2 Chemical analysis
7 Freedom from defects
8 Dimensional tolerance requirements for round tube
8.1 Mean outside diameter
8.2 Out-of-roundness
8.3 Wall thickness
8.4 Length
8.5 Squareness of cut ends
9 Selection and preparation of test samples (not applicable to non-destructive tests)
9.1 Selection
9.2 Test pieces
10 Mechanical tests
10.1 Hardness test
10.2 Tensile test
10.3 Flattening test (applicable to round tube only)
10.4 Drifting test (applicable to round tube only)
11 Non-destructive tests
11.1 Eddy-current test (applicable to round tube only)
11.2 Hydrostatic test (applicable to round tube only)
11.3 Pneumatic test
12 Electrical resistivity (applicable to alloy C11000 only)
13 Grain size (applicable to O and ¼H tempers only)
14 Stress cracking test
15 Retests
16 Marking
17 Rounding of test result values
Appendix A
A.1 Purchasing information to be supplied
A.2 Test recommendations
A.2.1 General
A.2.2 Non-destructive testing
A.3 Calculation of safe working pressures
A.1
A.4 Preferred sizes
A.5 Certificates
A.5.1 Certificates of conformance
A.5.2 Test certificate
Bibliography
Cited references in this standard
ASTM E478
Standard Test Methods for Chemical Analysis of Copper Alloys
ASTM E243
Standard Practice for Electromagnetic (Eddy Current) Examination of Copper and Copper-Alloy Tubes
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Recommended practice for atomic emission spectrometric analysis, Part 1: Principles and techniques
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Analysis of metals — Procedures for the setting up, calibration and standardization of atomic emission spectrometers using arc/spark discharge
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