ASTM A185-97

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

SCOPE
1.1 This specification covers welded wire reinforcement 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" (WWR) 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 specification and in related specifications.
1.2 The values stated in inch-pound or SI units are to be regarded as 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

Standards Content (Sample)

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Designation: A 185 – 97
Standard Specification for
Steel Welded Wire Fabric, Plain, for Concrete
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Reinforcement
This standard is issued under the fixed designation A 185; 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 tudinal and transverse wires arranged substantially at right
angles to each other, and welded together at points of intersec-
1.1 This specification covers welded wire fabric to be used
tion.
for the reinforcement of concrete.
1.2 The values stated in inch-pound or SI units are to be
4. Ordering Information
regarded as standard. Within the text the inch-pound units are
4.1 Orders for material to this specification should include
shown in parenthesis. The values stated in each system are not
the following information:
exact equivalents; therefore, each system must be used inde-
4.1.1 Quantity (weight or square area),
pendently of the other. Combining values may result in
4.1.2 Name of material (welded wire fabric for concrete
nonconformance with the specification.
reinforcement),
2. Referenced Documents 4.1.3 Wire spacings and sizes,
4.1.4 Minimum yield strength if Supplement S 1 of Speci-
2.1 ASTM Standards:
fication A 82 applies.
A 82 Specification for Steel Wire, Plain, for Concrete Re-
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4.1.5 Exclusion of oversteeling, if required (see 8.4.2),
inforcement
4.1.6 Length and width of sheets or rolls,
A 700 Practices for Packaging, Marking, and Loading
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4.1.7 Packaging (see Section 16), and
Methods for Steel Products for Domestic Shipment
4.1.8 ASTM designation and year of issue.
2.2 Military Standards:
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MIL-STD-129 Marking for Shipment and Storage
NOTE 1—A typical ordering description is as follows: 10 000 ft
MIL-STD-163 Steel Mill Products Preparation for Ship-
welded wire fabric for concrete reinforcement, 4 3 12-W15 3W 6,inflat
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sheets 96 in. wide by 240 in. long, in secured lifts, to ASTM
ment and Storage
A 185– _______ .
2.3 Federal Standard:
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Fed. Std. No. 123 Marking for Shipments (Civil Agencies)
5. Materials
3. Terminology 5.1 The wire used in the manufacture of welded wire fabrics
shall conform to Specification A 82 and its Supplement S1 if so
3.1 Definitions of Terms Specific to This Standard:
ordered.
3.1.1 convoluted wire—when wire for welded fabric is
5.2 Welded wire fabric shall be furnished either in flat
formed into a sinusoidal wave shape, it is commonly referred
sheets, or in rolls, as specified by the purchaser.
to as convoluted wire. The wire is used in the manufacture of
cages for certain applications of concrete pipe reinforcing.
6. Manufacture
3.1.2 welded wire fabric—as used within the scope and
6.1 The wires shall be assembled by automatic machines or
intent of this specification, designates a material composed of
by other suitable mechanical means which will assure accurate
cold-drawn steel wire, as-drawn or galvanized, fabricated into
spacing and alignment of all members of the finished fabric.
sheets or rolls by the process of electric resistance welding. The
6.2 Longitudinal and transverse members shall be securely
finished material shall consist essentially of a series of longi-
connected at every intersection by a process of electrical-
resistance welding which employs the principle of fusion
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This specification is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee A-1 on Steel,
combined with pressure.
Stainless Steel, and Related Alloys and is the direct responsibility of Subcommittee
6.3 Wire of proper grade and quality when fabricated in the
A01.05 on Steel Reinforcement.
manner herein required shall result in a strong, serviceable
Current edition approved March 10, 1997. Published November 1997. Originally
published as A 185 – 36 T. Last previous edition A 185 – 94.
mesh-type product having substantially square or rectangular
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Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Vol 01.04.
openings. It shall be fabricated and finished in a workmanlike
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Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Vol 01.05.
4 manner, shall be free from injurious defects, and shall conform
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A 185
NOTE 2—A variation of manufacturing includes the application of one
the specimen shall then be tested. The fabric will be acceptable
or more longitudinal convoluted wires at one edge of fabric for concrete
if the average of all weld shear test v
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