AS/NZS 3678:1996

Specifies requirements for the production and supply of hot-rolled structural steel plates, floorplates and slabs for general structural and engineering applications. It also specifies requirements for the production and supply of wide slabs as fully killed analysis-only steel.

This Standard specifies requirements for the production and supply of hot-rolled structural steel plates and floorplates for carbon and carbon-manganese mechanically-tested steels, fully-killed analysis-only steels, and low-alloy (weathering) mechanically-tested steels. This Standard also specifies requirements for the production and supply of wide slabs as fully-killed analysis-only steel.For general structural and engineering applications, all grades specified in this Standard are suitable for -(a) welding in accordance with AS/NZS 1554; or(b) riveting and bolting as specified in AS 1538, AS 3990, AS 4100 and NZS 3404.This Standard does not cover the following:(i) Structural steel - hot-rolled bars and sections (see AS/NZS 3679.1), and welded I sections (see AS/NZS 3679.2).(ii) Steel plates for pressure equipment (see AS 1548).(iii) Structural steel hollow sections (see AS 1163).(iv) Hot-rolled steel flat products (see AS 1594).(v) Structural and pressure vessel steel - Quenched and tempered plate (see AS 3597)NOTES:1 Guidelines to purchasers on requirements that should be specified by the purchaser and those that should or may be agreed on at the time of enquiry and ordering are given in Appendix A.2 Guidelines to various means for demonstrating compliance with this Standard are given in Appendix B.3 Guidelines on cold-bending and hot-forming of plate during fabrication are given in Appendix C.

First published in Australia in part as AS A1-1925
Second edition 1928
AS A1-1928 redated AS A1-1931
AS A1-1931 revised and redesignated in part as AS A33-1937
AS A33-1937 redated AS A33-1955
AS A135 first published 1965
AS A147 first published 1965
AS A149 first published 1965
AS A151 first published 1966
AS A33-1955 revised and redesignated in part as AS A157-1966
AS A135-1965, AS A149-1965 and AS A151-1966 revised, amalgamated and redesignated AS A186-1971.
Second edition AS A147-1971
AS A187 first published 1971
AS A186-1971 revised and redesignated AS 1204-1972
AS A187-1971 revised and redesignated AS 1205-1972
AS A157-1966 revised and redesignated AS 1405-1973
AS A147-1971 revised and redesignated AS 1227-1974
Second edition AS 1205-1980
Second edition AS 1227-1980
AS 1204-1972 and AS 1405-1973 revised, amalgamated and redesignated as AS 1204-1980
AS 1204-1980, AS 1205-1980 and AS 1227-1980 revised, amalgamated and redesignated in part as AS 3678-1990
AS 1204-1980 withdrawn March 1990
AS 1205-1980 withdrawn March 1990
AS 1227-1980 withdrawn March 1990
AS 3678-1990 jointly revised and designated AS/NZS 3678:1996