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  • BS 970-1:1983

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    Specification for wrought steels for mechanical and allied engineering purposes General inspection and testing procedures and specific requirements for carbon, carbon manganese, alloy and stainless steels

    Available format(s):  Hardcopy, PDF

    Superseded date:  29-11-1991

    Language(s):  English

    Published date:  31-05-1983

    Publisher:  British Standards Institution

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    General inspection and testing requirements including some steel making and composition requirements. Specific requirements covering as appropriate, chemical composition, mechanical properties, hardenability, heat treatment for hot rolled and normalized steels, bright bar, micro alloyed steels, through hardening, case hardening, stainless and heat resisting steels. Requirements for sizes and tolerances. Appendices include hardenability curves, guide to selection of through hardening steels and compari sons with steels in previous editions.

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    Committee ISE/105
    Development Note Replaces PD 6474: 1976 and the requirements in BS 970: Part 4: 1970 for stainless and heat resisting steels.
    Document Type Standard
    Publisher British Standards Institution
    Status Superseded
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    Standards Referencing This Book - (Show below) - (Hide below)

    BS 131-1:1961 Methods for notched bar tests The Izod impact test on metals
    PD 6474:1976 Two-way index of the designation system used in BS 970:1955 (now obsolete) and later revisions
    BS 891-1:1962 Method for Rockwell hardness test Testing of metals
    BS 427-1:1961 Method for Vickers hardness test Testing of metals
    BS 970-6:1973 Specification for wrought steels for mechanical and allied engineering purposes SI metric values (for use with BS 970:Parts 4 and 5)
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