ASTM D3953-97
(Specification)Standard Specification for Strapping, Flat Steel and Seals
Standard Specification for Strapping, Flat Steel and Seals
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1.1 This specification covers flat steel strapping and seals intended for use in closing, reinforcing, bundling articles for shipment, unitizing, palletizing, and bracing for carloading and truckloading.
1.2 This specification includes strapping and seals made from carbon steel and applies only to the types and sizes as cataloged by strapping suppliers to be a standard, commercially available product. It does not include "specialty"-type strapping as developed for special applications or strapping produced from alloy metals.
1.3 The values stated in inch-pound units are to be regarded as standard.
1.4 The following safety hazards caveat applies only to the test method portion, Sections 11, 12, and 13, of this specification: This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use.
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Designation: D 3953 – 97
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Standard Specification for
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Strapping, Flat Steel and Seals
This standard is issued under the fixed designation D 3953; 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 D 4675 Guide for Selection and Use of Flat Strapping
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Materials
1.1 This specification covers flat steel strapping and seals
E 177 Practice for Use of the Terms Precision and Bias in
intended for use in closing, reinforcing, bundling articles for
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ASTM Test Methods
shipment, unitizing, palletizing, and bracing for carloading and
E 691 Practice for Conducting an Interlaboratory Study to
truckloading.
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Determine the Precision of a Test Method
1.2 This specification includes strapping and seals made
2.2 Military Standard:
from carbon steel and applies only to the types and sizes as
MIL-STD-105 Sampling Procedures and Tables for Inspec-
cataloged by strapping suppliers to be a standard, commer-
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tion by Attributes
cially available product. It does not include “specialty”-type
2.3 AAR General Rules 15
strapping as developed for special applications or strapping
AAR Rule Governing the Loading of Commodities on
produced from alloy metals.
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Open Top Cars
1.3 The values stated in inch-pound units are to be regarded
as standard.
3. Terminology
1.4 The following safety hazards caveat applies only to the
3.1 General definitions for packaging and distribution envi-
test method portion, Sections 11, 12, and 13, of this specifica-
ronments are found in Terminology D 996.
tion: This standard does not purport to address all of the safety
concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility
4. Strapping Classifications
of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety and
4.1 Strapping shall be of the following types, finish and
health practices and determine the applicability of regulatory
sizes:
limitations prior to use.
Type 1, Flat Strapping: Power Machine and Hand Applica-
tion:
2. Referenced Documents
Regular-duty
2.1 ASTM Standards:
Heavy-duty
A 90/A90M Test Method for Weight (Mass) of Coating on
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Heavy-duty, high elongation
Iron or Steel Articles with Zinc or Zinc-Alloy Coatings
3 Type 2: Nail-On
A 109 Specification for Steel, Strip, Carbon, Cold-Rolled
4.1.1 Strapping Finish, Lubricated or Dry (see 8.3):
A 239 Test Method for Locating the Thinnest Spot in a Zinc
4.1.1.1 Finish A—Organic (Pigmented or Unpigmented
(Galvanized) Coating on Iron or Steel Articles by the
2 Paint)
Preece Test (Copper Sulfate Dip)
4.1.1.2 Finish B—Galvanized (Hot Dipped or Electro-
B 504 Test Method for Measurement of Thickness of Me-
4 Deposit Galvanized) (see 8.10):
tallic Coatings by the Coulometric Method
Grade 1—Heavy Coating
D 996 Terminology of Packaging and Distribution Environ-
5 Grade 2—Moderate Coating
ments
5 Grade 3—Commercial Coating
D 3951 Practice for Commercial Packaging
4.1.1.3 Finish C—Organic Painted Metallic Filled (Alumi-
D 4332 Practice for Conditioning Containers, Packages, or
5 num or Zinc)
Packaging Components for Testing
4.1.1.4 Finish D—Uncoated
4.1.2 Strapping Sizes— Strapping shall have the widths and
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This specification is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee D-10 on
Packaging and is the direct responsibility of Subcommittee D10.25 on Palletizing
and Unitizing of Loads.
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Annual Book of ASTM Standards, 14.02.
Current edition approved April 10, 1997. Published February 1998. Originally
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Available from Standardization Documents Order Desk, Bldg. 4 Section D, 700
published as D 3953 – 83. Last previous edition D 3953 – 91
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Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Vol 01.06. Robbins Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19111-5094, Attn: NPODS.
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Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Vol 01.03. AAR Rule Governing the Loading of Commodities on Open Top Cars, Section
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Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Vol 02.05. No. 1 General Rules—Rule 15, available from the Association of American
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Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Vol 15.09. Railroads, Mechanical Division 50 F St., NW, Washington, DC 20001.
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D 3953
thicknesses in accordance with sizes shown in Table 1 and normally used for this purpose in commercial practice, and the
Table 2. physical mechanical proper
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