CSA G40.20M : 1987

Technical committee on Structural Steel
Preface
CAN/CSA-G40.20-M92
General Requirements for Rolled or Welded Structural Quality
Steel
1 Scope
2 Definitions
2.1 Product definitions
2.2 General definitions
3 Reference publications
4 Chemical composition
4.1 Heat analysis
4.2 Product analysis
5 Permissible variations in dimensions or mass
5.1 Density
5.2 Plates
5.3 Structural-size shapes
5.4 Sheet piling
5.5 Bars and bar-size shapes
5.6 Welded shapes
5.7 Hollow sections
5.8 Super light beams
5.9 Cold-formed channels
6 Testing - General
7 Test specimens
7.1 Test specimen location
7.1.1 General
7.1.2 Tensile and hardness test specimens
7.1.3 Impact test specimens
7.2 Test specimen preparation
7.2.1 Tension tests
7.2.2 Impact tests
8 Methods of testing
8.1 Mechanical testing
8.2 Deleted
8.3 Gripping of specimen
8.4 Adjustment of ductility requirements for material
      thickness
8.5 Austenitic grain size test
9 Frequency of testing
9.1 Mechanical tests of as-rolled and normalized steel
9.2 Mechanical tests of quenched and tempered steel
9.3 Per piece testing
9.3.1 Sections (with mass of more than 5000kg (5 t)each
      and plates
9.3.2 Sections (with a mass of less than 5000kg (5 t)each),
      Hollow sections, Sheet Piling and Bars
9.4 Testing of samples
9.5 Grouped heat testing
9.6 Grain size test
9.7 Hardness test
10 Heat treatment
10.1 Normalizing
10.2 Quenching and tempering
11 Quality
12 Repair of defects by welding
13 Marking
13.1 Plates
13.2 Structural-size plates
13.3 Bars
13.4 Hollow sections
13.5 Cold-formed channels
13.6 Per piece identification
13.7 Stamps
13.8 Colour marking
14 Retests
14.1 Tensile tests
14.2 Impact tests
14.3 Defective tests
14.4 Resubmission
15 Welded shape requirements
15.1 General
15.1.1 Material
15.1.2 Fabrication
15.2 Welding
15.3 Weld quality
15.4 Weld quality control tests
15.5 Repair of welds
15.6 Marking
16 Certification
17 Inspection
18 Rejection
Index to tables or permissible variations
Tables
Figures
Appendices
A - Position of test pieces for tensile tests
B - Position of test piece to be taken from Tension Test
    Samples when two rolled surfaces cannot be retained

Gives a group of common requirements that apply, unless otherwise stated in a purchase order or in an individual standard, to structural quality steel plates, sheet piling, bars, shapes and hollow sections conforming to the requirements of CAN/CSA-G40.21-M.