May 01, 2005

A new online steel database facilitates finding information about more than 20,000 alloys and standards from standards development organizations around the world. ASTM International’s new Passport to Steel, developed in partnership with CASTI Publishing Inc., provides comprehensive steel standards data in a product designed to offer the most timely data to the user in an accessible format.

 

Passport to Steel incorporates steel data from: ASTM International, Association Franaise de Normalisation, American Petroleum Institute, SAE International, Deutsches Institut für Normung, British Standards Institution, Canadian Standards Association, European Committee for Standardization, Japanese Standards Association, and the International Organization for Standardization. Passport to Steel’s search options allow the user to search by standards or fields he or she chooses, including:

 

• Standards Developing Organization;
• Specification Title;
• Standard Designation;
• Grade, Class, Type, Symbol, Steel Name;
• Steel Number or UNS Number;
• Product Form (18 forms);
• Alloy Group (8 groups);
• Chemical Composition (search 36 elements by minimum, maximum, minimum/maximum range, nominal composition, or search for alloys containing any amount of a specific element); and
• Mechanical Properties: tensile or yield strength, elongation, reduction of area, impact strength, hardness, with longitudinal or transverse data, in inch-pound units and SI units; (search by minimum, maximum, minimum/maximum range, or nominal values).

 

The results from each search can be sorted and selected according to user preferences. In addition, search results can easily be copied into programs such as Microsoft Excel® to save information electronically. Search results can include the following parameters:

 

• Specification designation with year date;
• Grade, class, type, symbol or steel name;
• UNS number or steel number;
• Product form and application;
• The full specification title;
• Complete chemical composition;
• Complete mechanical properties; and
• Special notes relating to the data.

Help is just a keystroke away as Passport to Steel provides a Help menu with step-by-step instructions and practical examples for each feature, hints and tips for searching, navigating, sorting data results, user frequently asked questions, and more.

 

The database also includes access to a Reference Center providing valuable information for all steel users. The Reference Center includes: selected standards, journal articles, related book chapters, hardness conversion tables, the Periodic Table, and a list of metal terms in English, Spanish, German, and French.

 

Subscriptions for Passport to Steel are available from ASTM Customer Service (phone: 610/832-9585; fax: 610/832-9555; or https://www.astm.org/contact) or online at www.astm.org. For a one-year subscription for an individual workstation, one user, single PC access only, the cost is $995 (stock # PSTSTEEL). For a one-year subscription, multi-user access at a single site, the cost is $1,750 (stock # PSTSTEELX). For multi-user access at multiple sites, contact George Zajdel, ASTM International (phone: 610/832-9614; gzajdel@astm.org).

 

Release #7143