ASTM A497-99e1

Standard Specification for Steel Welded Wire Reinforcement, Deformed, for Concrete

SCOPE
1.1 This specification covers welded wire reinforcement made from cold-worked drawn or rolled deformed wire, or a combination of deformed and non-deformed wires, to be used for the reinforcement of concrete.
Note 1—Welded wire for concrete reinforcement has been described by various terms: welded wire fabric, WWF, fabric, and mesh. The wire reinforcement industry prefers the term "welded wire reinforcement" (WWF) as being more representative of the range of products being manufactured. Therefore, the term "welded wire fabric" has been replaced with the term "welded wire reinforcement" in this specifcation and in other related specifications.
1.2 The values stated in either inch-pound or SI units are to be regarded as the standard. Within the text the inch-pound units are shown in parenthesis. The values stated in each system are not exact equivalents; therefore, each system must be used independently of the other. Combining values may result in nonconformance with the specification.

General Information

• Status: Historical
• Publication Date: 09-Dec-2001
• ICS: 77.140.15 - Steels for reinforcement of concrete
• Technical Committee: A01 - Steel, Stainless Steel and Related Alloys
• Drafting Committee: A01.05 - Steel Reinforcement

Relations

• Replaces: ASTM A497-99 - Standard Specification for Steel Welded Wire Reinforcement, Deformed, for Concrete
• Effective Date: 10-Dec-2001
• Replaced By: ASTM A497-01 - Standard Specification for Steel Welded Wire Reinforcement, Deformed, for Concrete
• Effective Date: 10-Dec-2001

Standards Content (Sample)

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Designation: A 497 – 99
Standard Specification for
Steel Welded Wire Fabric, Deformed, for Concrete
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Reinforcement
This standard is issued under the fixed designation A 497; 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.
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e NOTE—An editorial change was made in 15.3 in June 2001.
1. Scope cages for certain applications of concrete pipe reinforcing.
Only non-deformed wire is normally subject to convolution.
1.1 This specification covers welded wire fabric made from
3.1.2 welded wire fabric, n—as used within the scope and
cold-worked drawn or rolled deformed wire, or a combination
intent of this specification, welded wire fabric designates a
of deformed and non-deformed wires, to be used for the
material composed of cold-worked steel wire, fabricated into
reinforcement of concrete.
sheets or rolls by the process of electric resistance welding. The
1.2 The values stated in either inch-pound or SI units are to
finished material shall consist essentially of a series of longi-
be regarded as the standard. Within the text the inch-pound
tudinal and transverse wires arranged substantially at right
units are shown in parenthesis. The values stated in each
angles to each other, and welded together at points of intersec-
system are not exact equivalents; therefore, each system must
tion.
be used independently of the other. Combining values may
result in nonconformance with the specification.
4. Ordering Information
2. Referenced Documents 4.1 Orders for material to this specification should include
the following information:
2.1 ASTM Standards:
4.1.1 Quantity (weight or square area),
A 82 Specification for Steel Wire, Plain, for Concrete Re-
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4.1.2 Name of material (deformed welded wire fabric for
inforcement
concrete reinforcement),
A 496 Specification for Steel Wire, Deformed, for Concrete
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4.1.3 Wire spacings and sizes,
Reinforcement
4.1.4 Minimum yield strength if Supplement S1 of Specifi-
A 700 Practices for Packaging, Marking, and Loading
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cation A 496 applies; and minimum yield strength if wire
Methods for Steel Products for Domestic Shipment
conforming to Specification A 82 is to be used and Supplement
2.2 Military Standards:
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S1 of Specification A 82 applies.
MIL-STD-129 Marking for Shipment and Storage
4.1.5 Exclusion of over-steeling, if required (see 9.4.1),
MIL-STD-163 Steel Mill Products Preparation for Ship-
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4.1.6 Length and width of sheets or rolls,
ment and Storage
4.1.7 Packaging (see Section 16), and
2.3 Federal Standard:
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4.1.8 ASTM designation and year of issue.
Fed. Std. No. 123 Marking for Shipments (Civil Agencies)
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NOTE 1—A typical ordering description is as follows: 10 000 ft welded
3. Terminology
deformed wire fabric for concrete reinforcement, 6 3 12–D63 D2, in flat
sheets 96 in. wide by 240 in. long, in secured lifts, to ASTM A 497 – ____.
3.1 Definitions of Terms Specific to This Standard:
3.1.1 convoluted wire, n—when wire for welded fabric is
5. Materials
shaped into a sinusoidal wave shape, it is commonly referred to
5.1 The wire used in the manufacture of welded wire fabrics
as convoluted wire. The wire is used in the manufacture of
shall conform to Specification A 496 and its Supplement S1 if
so ordered, either solely or in combination with wire conform-
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This specification is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee A-1 on Steel,
ing to Specification A 82 and its Supplement S1 if so ordered.
Stainless Steel, and Related Alloys and is the direct responsibility of Subcommittee
5.2 Welded wire fabric shall be furnished either in flat
A01.05 on Steel Reinforcement.
Current edition approved Oct. 10, 1999. Published December 1999. Originally
sheets, or in rolls, as specified by the purchaser.
published as A 497 – 64. Last previous edition A 497 – 97.
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Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Vol 01.04.
6. Manufacture
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Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Vol 01.05.
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6.1 The wires shall be assembled by automatic machines or
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by other suitable mechanical means which will assure accurate requirements for weld shear strength if the average of the four
spacing and alignment of all members of the finished fabric. samples complies with the value stipulated in 7.3. If the
6.2 Longitudinal and transverse members shall be securely average fails to mee
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