Copper ingots
ASTM’s copper standards are instrumental in classifying, evaluating, and specifying the material, chemical, mechanical, and metallurgical properties of copper materials, including bronze and their alloys with other metals. These materials when in the raw form are fabricated into basic shapes like sheets, strips, plates, bars, beams, disks, rods, wires, and ingots.
Conversely, finished products are molded into more complicated shapes according to their intended purpose such as pipes and tubes. Moreover, as judged fit, these materials are utilized for bridges and turntables, locomotive parts, pressure vessels, heat exchangers and condensers, electrolytic cathodes, machine bearings, and air conditioning and refrigeration components. These copper standards are helpful in guiding metallurgical laboratories and refineries, product manufacturers, and other end-users of copper and its alloys in their proper processing and application procedures to ensure their quality towards safe use.
List of copper standards developed by ASTM:
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Designation |
Title |
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B22 / B22M – 17 |
Standard Specification for Bronze Castings for Bridges and Turntables |
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B30 – 16 |
Standard Specification for Copper Alloys in Ingot Form |
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B61 – 15 |
Standard Specification for Steam or Valve Bronze Castings |
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B62 – 17 |
Standard Specification for Composition Bronze or Ounce Metal Castings |
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B66 – 15 |
Standard Specification for Bronze Castings for Steam Locomotive Wearing Parts |
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B67 – 14 |
Standard Specification for Car and Tender Journal Bearings, Lined |
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B148 – 14 |
Standard Specification for Aluminum-Bronze Sand Castings |
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B176 – 17 |
Standard Specification for Copper-Alloy Die Castings |
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B208 – 14 |
Standard Practice for Preparing Tension Test Specimens for Copper Alloy Sand, Permanent Mold, Centrifugal, and Continuous Castings |
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B271 / B271M – 15 |
Standard Specification for Copper-Base Alloy Centrifugal Castings |
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B369 – 09(2016) |
Standard Specification for Copper-Nickel Alloy Castings |
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B427 – 09(2015) |
Standard Specification for Gear Bronze Alloy Castings |
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B505 / B505M – 14 |
Standard Specification for Copper Alloy Continuous Castings |
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B584 – 14 |
Standard Specification for Copper Alloy Sand Castings for General Applications |
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B644 – 11(2017) |
Standard Specification for Copper Alloy Addition Agents |
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B763 / B763M – 15 |
Standard Specification for Copper Alloy Sand Castings for Valve Applications |
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B770 – 15 |
Standard Specification for Copper-Beryllium Alloy Sand Castings for General Applications |
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B806 – 14 |
Standard Specification for Copper Alloy Permanent Mold Castings for General Applications |
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B824 – 17 |
Standard Specification for General Requirements for Copper Alloy Castings |