ASTM B846-01e1
(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 846–01
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—Editorial changes were made throughout in November 2002.
1. Scope as-welded condition—a condition created as a result of
forming annealed sheet or plate into tubular form and
1.1 The terms defined in this terminology standard are
welding without subsequent heat treatment or cold work.
applicable to copper and copper alloy products specifications,
average diameter(forround tubes only)—theaverageofthe
test methods, practices, and other documents within the juris-
maximum and minimum outside diameters or the maximum
diction of Committee B05 on Copper and Copper Alloys.
and minimum inside diameters, whichever is applicable, as
2. Referenced Documents
determined at any one cross section of the tube.
base metal—the sheet or plate from which the pipe is formed.
2.1 ASTM Standards:
billet—refinery shape used for piercing or extrusion into
B 170 Specification for Oxygen-Free Electrolytic Copper—
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tubular products or for extrusion into rods, bars, and shapes.
Refinery Shapes
Circular in cross section, usually 3 to 16 in. (76 to 406 mm)
B 379 Specification for Phosphorized Coppers—Refinery
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in diameter, normally ranging in weight from 100 to 4200 lb
Shapes
(45 to 1905 kg).
3. Significance and Use
blank—a piece of flat product intended for subsequent fabri-
cation by forming, bending, cupping, drawing, hot pressing,
3.1 This terminology is not intended to apply to any
and so forth.
standard, test method, practice, or other document not within
buckle (centre bulge or oil can)—alternate bulges and hol-
the jurisdiction of Committee B05 on Copper and Copper
lows recurring along the length of a strip with the edges
Alloys.
remaining relatively flat.
4. Terminology
bus bar—includesmaterialofsolidrectangularorsquarecross
sectionorasolidsectionwithtwoplaneparallelsurfacesand
anneal (annealing)—a thermal treatment to change the prop-
round or other simple regular-shaped edges.
erties or grain structure of the product. When applied to a
bus conductor stock—a bar, rod, or shape of high-
cold-worked product having a single phase: to produce
conductivity copper used to make bus conductors.
softening by recrystallization or recrystallization and grain
cake—refinery shape used for rolling into plate, sheet, strip, or
growth, with the accompanying changes in properties.When
shape. Rectangular in cross section and of various sizes,
applied to a product having two or more phases: to produce
normally ranging in weight from 140 to 62 000 lb (63 to
softening by changes in the phase relationship which may
28 123 kg).
include recrystallization and grain growth.
casting—a general term for a metal object produced at or
arc welding—a group of welding processes wherein coales-
near-finished shape by pouring or otherwise introducing
cence is produced by heating with an arc or arcs, with or
molten metal into a mold and allowing it to solidify.
without the application of pressure and with or without the
casting, centrifugal—a casting produced in a cylindrical mold
use of filler metal.
rotating on its axis with the major axis of the product
coinciding with the axis of rotation.The axis of rotation may
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be horizontal, vertical, or any angle in between.
This terminology is under the jurisdiction ofASTM Committee B05 on Copper
and Copper Alloys and is the direct responsibility of Subcommittee B05.93 on
casting, centrifuged—a casting produced in a mold, a number
Terminology.
of which may be mounted around a central sprue.The molds
Current edition approved May 10, 2001. Published September 2001. Originally
are rotated, in a vertical position, about a central axis
published as B 846 – 93. Last previous edition B 846 – 99.
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Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Vol 02.01. concentric with the central sprue.
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casting, continuous—a casting produced by the continuous into layers approximately parallel to the axis of the coil, but
pouring and solidification of molten metal through a water- not necessarily with the fixed regularity of a level or traverse
cooled mold which determines the cross-sectional shape. wound coil.
The length of the product is not restricted by mold dimen- cold work—controlledmechanicaloperationsforchangingthe
sions. form or cross section of a product and for producing a
cast
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