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ASTM A555 / A555M - 20
Standard Specification for General Requirements for Stainless Steel Wire and Wire Rods
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Abstract
This specification covers general requirements that shall apply to stainless wire and wire rods. Wire is intended primarily for cold forming, including coiling, stranding, weaving, heading and machining as covered under the required specifications. The material may be furnished in one of the conditions detailed in the applicable material specification, that is, annealed, bright annealed, or cold worked. Intergranular corrosion test, grain size test, tension test, and chemical analysis shall conform to the chemical and mechanical requirements of the material specification.
This abstract is a brief summary of the referenced standard. It is informational only and not an official part of the standard; the full text of the standard itself must be referred to for its use and application. ASTM does not give any warranty express or implied or make any representation that the contents of this abstract are accurate, complete or up to date.
1. Scope
1.1 This specification covers general requirements that shall apply to stainless wire and wire rods. Wire rods are a semifinished product intended primarily for the manufacture of wire. Wire is intended primarily for cold forming, including coiling, stranding, weaving, heading and machining as covered under the latest revision of each of the following ASTM specifications: A313/A313M, A368, A478, A492, A493, A580/A580M, and A581/A581M.
1.2 In case of conflicting requirements, the individual material specification and this general requirement specification shall prevail in the order named.
1.3 General requirements for flat products other than wire are covered in Specification A480/A480M.
1.4 General requirements for bar and billet products are covered in Specification A484/A484M.
1.5 The values stated in either SI units or inch-pound units are to be regarded separately as standard. The values stated in each system are not necessarily exact equivalents; therefore, to ensure conformance with the standard, each system shall be used independently of the other, and values from the two systems shall not be combined.
1.6 Unless the order specifies the applicable metric specification designation, the material shall be furnished in the inch-pound units.
1.7 This international standard was developed in accordance with internationally recognized principles on standardization established in the Decision on Principles for the Development of International Standards, Guides and Recommendations issued by the World Trade Organization Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Committee.
2. Referenced Documents (purchase separately) The documents listed below are referenced within the subject standard but are not provided as part of the standard.
ASTM Standards
A262 Practices for Detecting Susceptibility to Intergranular Attack in Austenitic Stainless Steels
A313/A313M Specification for Stainless Steel Spring Wire
A368 Specification for Stainless Steel Wire Strand
A370 Test Methods and Definitions for Mechanical Testing of Steel Products
A478 Specification for Chromium-Nickel Stainless Steel Weaving and Knitting Wire
A480/A480M Specification for General Requirements for Flat-Rolled Stainless and Heat-Resisting Steel Plate, Sheet, and Strip
A484/A484M Specification for General Requirements for Stainless Steel Bars, Billets, and Forgings
A492 Specification for Stainless Steel Rope Wire
A493 Specification for Stainless Steel Wire and Wire Rods for Cold Heading and Cold Forging
A580/A580M Specification for Stainless Steel Wire
A581/A581M Specification for Free-Machining Stainless Steel Wire and Wire Rods
A700 Guide for Packaging, Marking, and Loading Methods for Steel Products for Shipment
A751 Test Methods, Practices, and Terminology for Chemical Analysis of Steel Products
E112 Test Methods for Determining Average Grain Size
Federal Standard
Fed. Std. No. 123 Marking for Shipment (Civil Agencies)Military Standards
MIL-STD-129 Marking for Shipment and Storage MIL-STD-163 Preservation of Steel Products for Domestic ShipmentICS Code
ICS Number Code 77.140.65 (Steel wire, wir ropes and link chains)
UNSPSC Code
UNSPSC Code 31152203(Stainless steel wire)
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DOI: 10.1520/A0555_A0555M-20
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ASTM A555 / A555M-20, Standard Specification for General Requirements for Stainless Steel Wire and Wire Rods, ASTM International, West Conshohocken, PA, 2020, www.astm.org
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