ASTM B601-02

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Designation: B 601 – 02
Standard Classification for
Temper Designations for Copper and Copper Alloys—
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Wrought and Cast
This standard is issued under the fixed designation B 601; 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 * 5.2 Annealed Tempers, OS—Tempers produced by anneal-
ing to meet standard or special grain size requirements.
1.1 This is a classification of temper designations for copper
5.3 Manufactured Tempers, M—Tempers produced in the
and copper alloys—wrought and cast. The temper designations
product by the primary manufacturing operations of casting
are classified by the process or processes used in manufactur-
and hot working and controlled by the methods employed in
ing the product involved and its resulting qualities. It is not a
the operations.
specification of copper and copper alloy products.
5.4 Cold-Worked Tempers, H—Tempers produced by con-
1.2 The property requirements for the tempers are given in
trolled amounts of cold work.
the applicable product specification.
5.5 Cold-Worked (Drawn), Stress-Relieved Tempers, HR—
2. Referenced Documents Tempers produced by controlled amounts of cold work fol-
lowed by stress relief.
2.1 ASTM Standards:
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5.5.1 Order-Strengthening Tempers, HT—Tempers pro-
B 846 Terminology for Copper and Copper Alloys
duced by controlled amounts of cold work followed by a
3. Terminology
thermal treatment to produce order strengthening.
5.6 Heat-Treated Tempers, T—Tempers that are based on
3.1 For terminology related to copper and copper alloys,
heat treatments followed by rapid cooling.
refer to Terminology B 846.
5.6.1 Quench-Hardened Tempers, TQ—Tempers produced
4. Significance and Use
by quench-hardening treatments.
5.6.2 Solution Heat-Treated Temper, TB—Tempers pro-
4.1 Significance—This classification establishes an alpha-
duced by solution heat-treating precipitation hardenable or
numeric code of the tempers of copper and copper alloy
spinodal hardenable alloys.
products.
5.6.3 Solution Heat-Treated and Cold-Worked Tempers,
4.2 Use—The alphanumeric code is used to designate prod-
TD—Tempers produced by controlled amounts of cold work of
uct tempers in specifications and published data.
solution heat-treated precipitation hardenable or spinodal hard-
4.2.1 The letters in the code identify the type of process
enable alloys.
used to produce the product temper. For example, “H” indi-
5.6.4 Precipitation Heat-Treated Temper, TF—Tempers
cates a temper resulting from cold working.
produced by precipitation heat treatment of precipitation-
NOTE 1—These letters are frequently the same as those used in temper
hardenable alloys.
systems of other metal products.
5.6.5 Spinodal Heat Treated Temper, TX—Tempers pro-
duced by spinodal heat treatment of spinodal hardenable
5. Classification of Tempers
alloys.
5.1 Annealed Tempers, O—Tempers produced by annealing
5.6.6 Cold-Worked and Precipitation Heat-Treated Tem-
to meet mechanical property requirements.
pers, TH—Tempers produced in alloys that have been solution
heat treated, cold worked, and precipitation heat treated.
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5.6.7 Cold-Worked and Spinodal Heat-Treated Tempers,
This classification is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee B05 on
Copper and CopperAlloys and is the direct responsibility of Subcommittee B05.91
TS—Tempers produced in alloys that have been solution heat
on Editorial and Publications.
treated, cold worked, and spinodal heat treated.
Current edition approved Oct. 10, 2002. Published November 2002. Originally
published as B 601 – 74. Last previous edition B 601 – 01.
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Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Vol 02.01.
*A Summary of Changes section appears at the end of this standard.
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B601–02
5.6.8 Mill-Hardened Tempers, TM—Tempers of heat-
OS005 0.005
OS010 0.010
treated materials as supplied by the mill resulting from
OS015 0.015
combinations of cold work and precipitation heat treatment or
OS025 0.025
spinodal heat treatment.
OS035 0.035
OS045 0.045
5.6.9 Precipitation Heat-Treated or Spinodal Heat-Treated
OS050 0.050
and Cold-Worked Tempers, TL—Tempers produced by cold
OS060 0.060
working the precipitation heat-treated or spinodal heat-treated
OS065 0.065
OS070 0.070
alloys.
OS100 0.100
5.6.10 Precipitation Heat-Treated or Spinodal Heat-
OS120 0.120
Treated, Cold-Worked, and Thermal Stress-Relieved Tempers, OS150 0.150
OS200 0.200
TR—Temp
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