ASTM B846-99e1
(Terminology)Standard Terminology for Copper and Copper Alloys
Standard Terminology for Copper and Copper Alloys
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1.1 The terms defined in this terminology standard are applicable to copper and copper alloy products specifications, test methods, practices, and other documents within the jurisdiction of Committee B-5 on Copper and Copper Alloys.
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Designation: B 846 – 99
Standard Terminology for
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Copper and Copper Alloys
This standard is issued under the fixed designation B 846; 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.
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e NOTE—The term stress relief was editorially corrected in November 2000.
1. Scope in diameter, normally ranging in weight from 100 to 4200 lb
(63 to 28 200 kg).
1.1 The terms defined in this terminology standard are
blank—a piece of flat product intended for subsequent fabri-
applicable to copper and copper alloy products specifications,
cation by forming, bending, cupping, drawing, hot pressing,
test methods, practices, and other documents within the juris-
and so forth.
diction of Committee B-5 on Copper and Copper Alloys.
buckle (centre bulge or oil can)—alternate bulges and hol-
2. Referenced Documents lows recurring along the length of a strip with the edges
remaining relatively flat.
2.1 ASTM Standards:
bus bar—includes material of solid rectangular or square cross
B 170 Specification for Oxygen-Free Electrolytic Copper—
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section or a solid section with two plane parallel surfaces and
Refinery Shapes
round or other simple regular-shaped edges.
B 379 Specification for Phosphorized Coppers—Refinery
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bus conductor stock—a bar, rod, or shape of high-
Shapes
conductivity copper used to make bus conductors.
3. Significance and Use
cake—refinery shape used for rolling into plate, sheet, strip, or
shape. Rectangular in cross section and of various sizes,
3.1 This terminology is not intended to apply to any
normally ranging in weight from 140 to 62 000 lb (63 to
standard, test method, practice, or other document not within
28 200 kg).
the jurisdiction of Committee B-5 on Copper and Copper
casting—a general term for a metal object produced at or
Alloys.
near-finished shape by pouring or otherwise introducing
4. Terminology
molten metal into a mold and allowing it to solidify.
casting, centrifugal—a casting produced in a cylindrical mold
anneal (annealing)—a thermal treatment to change the prop-
rotating on its axis with the major axis of the product
erties or grain structure of the product.
coinciding with the axis of rotation. The axis of rotation may
arc welding—a group of welding processes wherein coales-
be horizontal, vertical, or any angle in between.
cence is produced by heating with an arc or arcs, with or
casting, centrifuged—a casting produced in a mold, a number
without the application of pressure and with or without the
of which may be mounted around a central sprue. The molds
use of filler metal.
are rotated, in a vertical position, about a central axis
as-welded condition—a condition created as a result of
concentric with the central sprue.
forming annealed sheet or plate into tubular form and
casting, continuous—a casting produced by the continuous
welding without subsequent heat treatment or cold work.
pouring and solidification of molten metal through a water-
average diameter (for round tubes only)— the average of the
cooled mold which determines the cross-sectional shape.
maximum and minimum outside diameters or the maximum
The length of the product is not restricted by mold dimen-
and minimum inside diameters, whichever is applicable, as
sions.
determined at any one cross section of the tube.
casting, permanent mold—a product produced in a reusable
base metal—the sheet or plate from which the pipe is formed.
mold constructed of a durable material, usually iron or steel,
billet—refinery shape used for piercing or extrusion into
with the molten metal being introduced by gravity, low-
tubular products or for extrusion into rods, bars, and shapes.
pressure or vacuum.
Circular in cross section, usually 3 to 16 in. (76 to 406 mm)
casting, sand—a casting produced in a sand mold.
casting, semicentrifugal—a casting produced in a manner
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This terminology is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee B-5 on Copper similar to the centrifugal casting except that a central core is
and Copper Alloys and is the direct responsibility of Subcommittee B05.93 on
used to allow the formation of other than a cylindrical inside
Terminology.
surface. The axis of rotation is always vertical.
Current edition approved April 10, 1999. Published July 1999. Originally
cathode—unmelted, electrodeposited, and somewhat rough
published as B 846 – 93. Last previous edition B 846 – 98.
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