ASTM A659/A659M-06

Standard Specification for Commercial Steel (CS), Sheet and Strip, Carbon (0.16 Maximum to 0.25 Maximum Percent), Hot-Rolled

ABSTRACT
This specification covers hot-rolled carbon steel sheet and strip, in coils and cut lengths. The cast or heat analysis of the steel shall conform to the chemical composition for copper, nickel, chromium, molybdenum, vanadium, and columbium. The bending properties are measured.
SCOPE
1.1 This specification covers hot-rolled carbon steel (CS) sheet and strip, in coils and cut lengths, in which the maximum of the specified carbon range is over 0.15 and not over 0.25 % and the maximum of the specified manganese range is not over 0.90 %. This material is ordered to chemical composition.
1.2 This specification is not applicable to the steels covered by Specification A 635/A 635M.
1.3 The values stated in either acceptable SI (metric) units or in other units shall be regarded separately as standard. The values stated in each system may not be exact equivalents; therefore, each system must be used independently of the other, without combining values in any way.

General Information

• Status: Historical
• Publication Date: 30-Sep-2006
• ICS: 77.140.50 - Flat steel products and semi-products
• Technical Committee: A01 - Steel, Stainless Steel and Related Alloys
• Drafting Committee: A01.19 - Steel Sheet and Strip

Relations

• Replaces: ASTM A659/A659M-97(2001) - Standard Specification for Commercial Steel (CS), Sheet and Strip, Carbon (0.16 Maximum to 0.25 Maximum Percent), Hot-Rolled
• Effective Date: 01-Oct-2006
• Replaced By: ASTM A659/A659M-08 - Standard Specification for Commercial Steel (CS), Sheet and Strip, Carbon (0.16 Maximum to 0.25 Maximum Percent), Hot-Rolled
• Effective Date: 01-Nov-2008
• Referred By: ASTM A786/A786M-15(2021) - Standard Specification for Hot-Rolled Carbon, Low-Alloy, High-Strength Low-Alloy, and Alloy Steel Floor Plates
• Effective Date: 01-Oct-2006
• Referred By: ASTM A568/A568M-19a - Standard Specification for Steel, Sheet, Carbon, Structural, and High-Strength, Low-Alloy, Hot-Rolled and Cold-Rolled, General Requirements for
• Effective Date: 01-Oct-2006

Standards Content (Sample)

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Designation: A 659/A 659M – 06
Standard Specification for
Commercial Steel (CS), Sheet and Strip, Carbon (0.16
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Maximum to 0.25 Maximum Percent), Hot-Rolled
This standard is issued under the fixed designationA 659/A 659M; the number immediately following the designation indicates the year
of original adoption or, in the case of revision, the year of last revision. A number in parentheses indicates the year of last reapproval.
A superscript epsilon (e) indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.
This standard has been approved for use by agencies of the Department of Defense.
1. Scope* J 1086 Numbering Metals and Alloys
1.1 This specification covers hot-rolled carbon steel (CS)
3. Ordering Information
sheet and strip, in coils and cut lengths, in which the maximum
3.1 It is the purchaser’s responsibility to specify in the
of the specified carbon range is over 0.15 and not over 0.25 %
purchase order all ordering information necessary to purchase
and the maximum of the specified manganese range is not over
the needed material. Examples of such information include but
0.90 %. This material is ordered to chemical composition.
are not limited to the following:
1.2 This specification is not applicable to the steels covered
3.1.1 ASTM specification number and year of issue,
by Specification A 635/A 635M.
3.1.2 Name of material (hot-rolled commercial steel (CS)
1.3 The values stated in either acceptable SI (metric) units
sheet, or hot-rolled commercial steel (CS) strip),
or in other units shall be regarded separately as standard. The
3.1.3 Grade designation or chemical composition, or both,
values stated in each system may not be exact equivalents;
3.1.4 Copper-bearing steel (if required),
therefore,eachsystemmustbeusedindependentlyoftheother,
3.1.5 Condition (as-rolled, pickled, or blast cleaned) (see
without combining values in any way.
4.1),
2. Referenced Documents 3.1.5.1 Material to this specification is furnished in the
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hot-rolled condition. Pickled (or blast cleaned) must be speci-
2.1 ASTM Standards:
fied if required,
A 568/A 568M Specification for Steel, Sheet, Carbon,
3.1.6 Oiling (see 7.2),
Structural, and High-Strength, Low-Alloy, Hot-Rolled and
3.1.7 Edges (see 7.1),
Cold-Rolled, General Requirements for
3.1.8 Dimensions(thickness,width,andwhethercutlengths
A 635/A 635M Specification for Steel, Sheet and Strip,
or coils),
Heavy-Thickness Coils, Hot-Rolled, Carbon, Structural,
3.1.8.1 As agreed upon between the purchaser and the
High-Strength Low-Alloy, and High-Strength Low-Alloy
producer, material ordered to this specification will be supplied
with Improved Formability, General Requirements for
to meet the appropriate standard or restricted thickness toler-
A 749/A 749M Specification for Steel, Strip, Carbon and
ance table shown in Specification A 568/A 568M.
High-Strength, Low-Alloy, Hot-Rolled, General Require-
ments for
NOTE 1—Not all producers are capable of meeting all of the limitations
E 527 Practice for Numbering Metals and Alloys (UNS) of the thickness tolerance tables in Specification A 568/A 568M. The
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purchaser should contact the producer regarding possible limitations prior
2.2 Society of Automotive Engineers Standard:
to placing an order.
3.1.9 Coil size (must include inside diameter, outside diam-
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This specification is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee A01 on Steel,
eter, and maximum mass),
Stainless Steel and Related Alloys and is the direct responsibility of Subcommittee
3.1.10 Quantity,
A01.19 on Steel Sheet and Strip.
Current edition approved Oct. 1, 2006. Published October 2006. Originally
3.1.11 Application (show part identification and descrip-
approved in 1972. Last previous edition approved in 2001 as A 659/A 659M – 97
tion),
(2001).
2 3.1.12 Special requirements (if required), and
For referenced ASTM standards, visit the ASTM website, www.astm.org, or
3.1.13 Cast or heat analysis report (request, if required).
contact ASTM Customer Service at [e-mail]. For Annual Book of ASTM
Standards volume information, refer to the standard’s Document Summary page on
NOTE 2—A typical ordering description is as follows:
the ASTM website.
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“ASTM A659-XX [or A659M-XX], Hot-Rolled Commercial Steel (CS)
Available from Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), 400 Commonwealth
Dr., Warrendale, PA 15096-0001, http://www.sae.org. Sheet, Grade 1017, Pickled and Oiled, Cut Edge, 0.075 by 36 in. [or 1.85
*A Summary of Changes section appears at the end of this standard.
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A 659/A 659M – 06
by 900 mm], by coil, ID 24 in., OD 48 in., max weight 11 250 lb max [or
appendix and is discussed in more detail in Specifications
ID 600 mm, OD 1200 mm, max,
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