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AS/NZS 1594:2025
[Current]Hot-rolled steel flat products
AS/NZS 1594:2025 aims to ensure that hot-rolled steel plate, floorplate, steel and strip, rolled on a continuous mill meets the needs of users in areas of dimensional tolerances and material requirements.
Published: 04/04/2025
Pages: 31
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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 General
4.2 Analysis grades
4.2.1 General
4.2.2 Modification identifiers
4.3 Formability grades
4.3.1 General
4.3.2 Modification identifiers
4.4 Extra formability grades
4.5 Structural grades
4.5.1 General
4.5.2 Modification identifiers
4.6 Additional properties
5 Manufacturing process
5.1 Steel-making process
5.2 Finished product
6 Chemical composition
6.1 General
6.2 Cast analysis
6.3 Product analysis
6.4 IIW carbon equivalent
6.5 Other elements
7 Manufacturing tolerances
8 Defects
9 Testing
9.1 General
9.2 Selection of test samples
9.3 Position and orientation of test pieces
9.4 Preparation of test pieces
9.4.1 General
9.4.2 Tensile and strain-age tensile test
9.4.3 Impact test
9.4.4 Bend test
9.5 Mechanical testing
9.5.1 Tensile test
9.5.2 Charpy V-notch impact test
9.5.3 Bend test
9.5.4 Strain-age tensile test (applicable to non-ageing grades only)
10 Mechanical properties
10.1 Tensile tests
10.2 Impact test
10.3 Bend test
11 Product identification and test certificates
11.1 Product identification
11.2 Test certificates
12 Sampling and testing
13 Rounding of numbers
13.1 General
13.2 Tensile properties
Appendix A
A.1 General
A.2 Information to be supplied by the purchaser
Appendix B
B.1 Scope
B.2 Initial type testing
B.2.1 General
B.2.2 Minimum sampling and testing
B.3 Production testing and inspections
B.3.1 Minimum batch testing and inspection
B.3.2 Test batch
B.3.3 Conformance
B.3.4 Invalid test results
B.4 Factory production control
B.4.1 General
B.4.2 Equipment
B.4.2.1 Testing
B.4.2.2 Manufacturing
B.4.3 Raw materials
B.5 Non-conforming products
B.5.1 General
B.5.2 Retests
B.5.3 Repair
B.6 Documentation
Appendix C
Appendix D
D.1 Scope
D.2 Principle
D.3 Apparatus
D.4 Procedure
D.5 Test report
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