ASTM A6 Standard Specification for General Requirements for Rolled Structural Steel Bars,Plates, Shapes, and Sheet Piling

ASTM A6 Standard Specification for General Requirements for Rolled Structural Steel Bars,Plates, Shapes, and Sheet Piling

1.1 ASTM A6 Standard Specification covers a group of common requirements that, unless otherwise specifified in the applicable product specifification, apply to rolled structural steel bars, plates, shapes, and sheet piling covered by each of the following product specififications issued by ASTM:

ASTM Designation/Title of Specifification

A 36/A 36M Carbon Structural Steel 

A 131/A 131M Structural Steel for Ships 

A 242/A 242M High-Strength Low-Alloy Structural Steel 

A 283/A 283M Low and Intermediate Tensile Strength Carbon Steel Plates 

A 328/A 328M Steel Sheet Piling 

A 514/A 514M High-Yield Strength, Quenched and Tempered Alloy Steel Plate Suitable for Welding 

A 529/A 529M High-Strength Carbon-Manganese Steel of Structural Quality 

A 572/A 572M High-Strength Low-Alloy Columbium-Vanadium Steel 

A 573/A 573M Structural Carbon Steel Plates of Improved Toughness 

A 588/A 588M High-Strength Low-Alloy Structural Steel with 50 ksi (345 MPa) Minimum Yield Point to 4 in. [100 mm] Thick 

A 633/A 633M Normalized High-Strength Low-Alloy Structural Steel Plates 

A 656/A 656M Hot-Rolled Structural Steel, High-Strength Low-Alloy Plate with Improved Formability 

A 678/A 678M Quenched-and-Tempered Carbon and High-Strength Low Alloy Structural Steel Plates ]

A 690/A 690M High-Strength Low-Alloy Steel H-Piles and Sheet Piling for Use in Marine Environments 

A 709/A 709M Carbon and High-Strength Low-Alloy Structural Steel Shapes, Plates, and Bars and Quenched-and-Tempered Alloy Structural Steel Plates for Bridges 

A 710/A 710M Age-Hardening Low-Carbon Nickel-Copper-Chromium-Mo-lybdenum-Columbium Alloy Structural Steel Plates 

A 769/A 769M Carbon and High-Strength Electric Resistance Welded Steel Structural Shapes 

A 786/A 786M Rolled Steel Floor Plates 

A 808/A 808M High-Strength Low-Alloy Carbon, Manganese, Columbium, Vanadium Steel of Structural Quality with Improved Notch Toughness 

A 827/A 827M Plates, Carbon Steel, for Forging and Similar Applications 

A 829/A 829M Plates, Alloy Steel, Structural Quality

A 830/A 830M Plates, Carbon Steel, Structural Quality, Furnished to Chemical Composition Requirements 

A 852/A 852M Quenched and Tempered Low-Alloy Structural Steel Plate with 70 ksi [485 Mpa] Minimum Yield Strength to 4 in. [100 mm] Thick 

A 857/A 857M Steel Sheet Piling, Cold Formed, Light Gage 

A 871/A 871M High-Strength Low Alloy Structural Steel Plate with Atmo-spheric Corrosion Resistance 

A 913/A 913M Specifification for High-Strength Low-Alloy Steel Shapes of Structural Quality, Produced by Quenching and SelfTempering Process (QST) 

A 945/A 945M Specifification for High-Strength Low-Alloy Structural Steel Plate with Low Carbon and Restricted Sulfur for Improved Weldability, Formability, and Toughness 

A 950/A 950M Specifification for Fusion Bonded Epoxy-Coated Structural Steel H-Piles and Sheet Piling 

A 992/A 992M Specifification for Steel for Structural Shapes for Use in Building Framing 

A 1026 Specifification for Alloy Steel Structural Shapes for Use in Building Framing 

A 1043/A 1043M Specifification for Structural Steel with Low Yield to Tensile Ratio for Use in Buildings

1.2 Annex A1 lists permitted variations in dimensions and mass (Note 1) in SI units. The values listed are not exact conversions of the values in Tables 1 to 31 inclusive but are, instead, rounded or rationalized values. Conformance to Annex A1 is mandatory when the “M” specifification designation is used. NOTE 1—The term “weight” is used when inch-pound units are the standard; however, under SI, the preferred term is “mass.” 

1.3 Annex A2 lists the dimensions of some shape profifiles. 

1.4 Appendix X1 provides information on coil as a source of structural products. 

1.5 Appendix X2 provides information on the variability of tensile properties in plates and structural shapes. 

1.6 Appendix X3 provides information on weldability. 

1.7 Appendix X4 provides information on cold bending of plates, including suggested minimum inside radii for cold bending. 

1.8 This general requirements specifification also covers a group of supplementary requirements that are applicable to several of the above product specififications as indicated therein. Such requirements are provided for use where additional testing or additional restrictions are required by the purchaser, and apply only where specifified individually in the purchase order. 

1.9 In case of any conflflict in requirements, the requirements of the applicable product specifification prevail over those of this general requirements specifification. 

1.10 Additional requirements that are specifified in the purchase order and accepted by the supplier are permitted, provided that such requirements do not negate any of the requirements of this general requirements specifification or the applicable product specifification. 

1.11 For purposes of determining conformance with this general requirements specifification and the applicable product specifification, values are to be rounded to the nearest unit in the right-hand place of fifigures used in expressing the limiting values in accordance with the rounding method of Practice E 29. 

1.12 The values stated in either inch-pound units or SI units are to be regarded separately as standard. Within the text, the SI units are shown in brackets. The values stated in each system are not exact equivalents; therefore, each system is to be used independently of the other, without combining values in any way. 

1.13 This general requirements specifification and the applicable product specifification are expressed in both inch-pound units and SI units; however, unless the order specififies the applicable “M” specifification designation (SI units), the structural product is furnished to inch-pound units. 

1.14 The text of this general requirements specifification contains notes and/or footnotes that provide explanatory material. Such notes and footnotes, excluding those in tables and fifigures, do not contain any mandatory requirements.