ASTM A572/A572M-00a

Standard Specification for High-Strength Low-Alloy Columbium-Vanadium Structural Steel

SCOPE
1.1 This specification covers five grades of high-strength low-alloy structural steel shapes, plates, sheet piling, and bars. Grades 42 [290], 50 [345], and 55 [380] are intended for riveted, bolted, or welded structures. Grades 60 [415] and 65 [450] are intended for riveted or bolted construction of bridges, or for riveted, bolted, or welded construction in other applications.
1.2 For applications, such as welded bridge construction, where notch toughness is important, notch toughness requirements are to be negotiated between the purchaser and the producer.
1.3 The use of columbium, vanadium, titanium, nitrogen, or combinations thereof, within the limitations noted in Section 5, is required; the selection of type (1, 2, 3, 4, or 5) is at the option of the producer, unless otherwise specified by the purchaser. (See Supplementary Requirement S90.)
1.4 The maximum thicknesses available in the grades and products covered by this specification are shown in Table 1.
1.5 When the steel is to be welded, a welding procedure suitable for the grade of steel and intended use or service is to be utilized. See Appendix X3 of Specification A 6/A 6M for information on weldability.
1.6 The values stated in either inch-pound units or SI units are to be regarded separately as standard. Within the text, the SI units are shown in brackets. The values stated in each system are not exact equivalents; therefore, each system is to be used independently of the other, without combining values in any way.
1.7 The text of this specification contains notes or footnotes, or both, that provide explanatory material. Such notes and footnotes, excluding those in tables and figures, do not contain any mandatory requirements.
1.8 For plates cut from coiled product, the additional requirements, including additional testing requirements and the reporting of additional tests, of A 6/A 6M apply.

General Information

• Status: Historical
• Publication Date: 09-Sep-2001
• ICS: 77.140.10 - Heat-treatable steels
• Technical Committee: A01 - Steel, Stainless Steel and Related Alloys
• Drafting Committee: A01.02 - Structural Steel for Bridges, Buildings, Rolling Stock and Ships

Relations

• Replaced By: ASTM A572/A572M-01 - Standard Specification for High-Strength Low-Alloy Columbium-Vanadium Structural Steel
• Effective Date: 10-Sep-2001
• Referred By: ASTM A950/A950M-11(2023) - Standard Specification for Fusion-Bonded Epoxy-Coated Structural Steel H-Piles and Sheet Piling
• Effective Date: 10-Sep-2001
• Referred By: ASTM A1075-12(2022) - Standard Specification for Flanged Steel U-Channel Posts
• Effective Date: 10-Sep-2001
• Referred By: ASTM D3966/D3966M-22 - Standard Test Methods for Deep Foundation Elements Under Static Lateral Load
• Effective Date: 10-Sep-2001
• Referred By: ASTM A328/A328M-13a(2018) - Standard Specification for Steel Sheet Piling
• Effective Date: 10-Sep-2001
• 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: 10-Sep-2001
• Referred By: ASTM C1802-23 - Standard Specification for Design, Testing, Manufacture, Selection, and Installation of Horizontal Fabricated Metal Access Hatches for Utility, Water, and Wastewater Structures
• Effective Date: 10-Sep-2001
• Referred By: ASTM D8507-23 - Standard Specification for High Load Multi-Rotational Disc Bearings for Bridges and Structures
• Effective Date: 10-Sep-2001
• Referred By: ASTM D7055-19 - Standard Practice for Preparation (by Abrasive Blast Cleaning) of Hot-Rolled Carbon Steel Panels for Testing of Coatings
• Effective Date: 10-Sep-2001
• Referred By: ASTM A709/A709M-21 - Standard Specification for Structural Steel for Bridges
• Effective Date: 10-Sep-2001
• Referred By: ASTM A1097/A1097M-22 - Standard Specification for Steel Casing Pipe, Carbon, Electric-Fusion (Arc)-Welded (NPS 10 and Larger)
• Effective Date: 10-Sep-2001
• Referred By: ASTM A1123/A1123M-22 - Standard Specification for Carbon Steel Laser and Laser-Hybrid Welded, Sharp-Cornered Profile (SCP), Built-Up, Square, Rectangular, and Special Shape Tube
• Effective Date: 10-Sep-2001
• Referred By: ASTM D5977-23 - Standard Specification for High Load Rotational Spherical Bearings for Bridges and Structures
• Effective Date: 10-Sep-2001
• Referred By: ASTM A1065/A1065M-18 - Standard Specification for Cold-Formed Electric-Fusion (Arc) Welded High-Strength Low–Alloy Structural Tubing in Shapes, with 50 ksi [345 MPa] Minimum Yield Point
• Effective Date: 10-Sep-2001
• Referred By: ASTM A1018/A1018M-23 - Standard Specification for Steel, Sheet and Strip, Heavy-Thickness Coils, Hot-Rolled, Carbon, Commercial, Drawing, Structural, High-Strength Low-Alloy, High-Strength Low-Alloy with Improved Formability, and Ultra-High Strength
• Effective Date: 10-Sep-2001

Standards Content (Sample)

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Designation: A 572/A 572M – 00a American Association State
Highway and Transportation
Officals Standard
AASHTO No.: M223
Standard Specification for
High-Strength Low-Alloy Columbium-Vanadium Structural
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Steel
This standard is issued under the fixed designation A 572/A 572M; 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 or both, that provide explanatory material. Such notes and
footnotes, excluding those in tables and figures, do not contain
1.1 This specification covers five grades of high-strength
any mandatory requirements.
low-alloy structural steel shapes, plates, sheet piling, and bars.
1.8 For plates cut from coiled product, the additional
Grades 42 [290], 50 [345], and 55 [380] are intended for
requirements, including additional testing requirements and the
riveted, bolted, or welded structures. Grades 60 [415] and 65
reporting of additional tests, of A 6/A 6M apply.
[450] are intended for riveted or bolted construction of bridges,
or for riveted, bolted, or welded construction in other applica-
2. Referenced Documents
tions.
2.1 ASTM Standards:
1.2 For applications, such as welded bridge construction,
A 6/A 6M Specification for General Requirements for
where notch toughness is important, notch toughness require-
Rolled Structural Steel Bars, Plates, Shapes, and Sheet
ments are to be negotiated between the purchaser and the
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Piling
producer.
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A 36/A 36M Specification for Carbon Structural Steel
1.3 The use of columbium, vanadium, titanium, nitrogen, or
A 514/A 514M Specification for High-Yield Strength,
combinations thereof, within the limitations noted in Section 5,
Quenched and Tempered Alloy Steel Plate, Suitable for
is required; the selection of type (1, 2, 3, 4, or 5) is at the option
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Welding
of the producer, unless otherwise specified by the purchaser.
(See Supplementary Requirement S90.)
3. General Requirements for Delivery
1.4 The maximum thicknesses available in the grades and
3.1 Material furnished under this specification shall con-
products covered by this specification are shown in Table 1.
form to the applicable requirements of the current edition of
1.5 When the steel is to be welded, a welding procedure
Specification A 6/A 6M, for the ordered material, unless a
suitable for the grade of steel and intended use or service is to
conflict exists in which case this specification shall prevail.
be utilized. See Appendix X3 of Specification A 6/A 6M for
3.1.1 Coiled product is excluded from qualification to this
information on weldability.
specification until levelled and cut to length. Plates produced
1.6 The values stated in either inch-pound units or SI units
from coil means plates that have been cut to individual lengths
are to be regarded separately as standard. Within the text, the
from a coiled product and are furnished without heat treatment.
SI units are shown in brackets. The values stated in each
The processor decoils, levels, cuts to length and marks the
system are not exact equivalents; therefore, each system is to
product. The processor is responsible for performing and
be used independently of the other, without combining values
certifying all tests, examinations, repairs, inspections, or op-
in any way.
erations not intended to affect the properties of the material.
1.7 The text of this specification contains notes or footnotes,
For plates produced from coils, two test results shall be
reported for each qualifying coil (Note 1).
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This specification is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee A01 on Steel,
NOTE 1—Additional requirements regarding plate from coil are de-
Stainless Steel and Related Alloys, and is the direct responsibility of Subcommittee
scribed in A 6/A 6M.
A01.02 on Structural Steel for Bridges, Buildings, Rolling Stock, and Ships.
Current edition approved Dec. 10, 2000. Published January 2001. Originally
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published as A 572 – 66. Last previous edition A 572/A 572M – 00. Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Vol 01.04.
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A 572/A 572M
TABLE 1 Maximum Product Thickness or Size
Yield Point, min Maximum Thickness or Size
Zees and Rolled
Grade Plates and Bars
Structural Shapes
Tees
ksi [MPa] Sheet Piling
A
Groups
in. [mm]
B
42 [290] 42 [290] 6 [150] all all all
B C C
50 [345] 50 [345] 4 [100] all all all
55 [380] 55 [380] 2 [50] all all all
B D D
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60 [415] 60 [415] 1 ⁄4 [32] 1, 2, and 3 all all
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65 [450] 65 [450] 1 ⁄4 [32] 1, 2, a
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