ASTM A513-06a

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Designation: A 513 – 06a
Standard Specification for
Electric-Resistance-Welded Carbon and Alloy Steel
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Mechanical Tubing
This standard is issued under the fixed designation A 513; 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* E 570 Practice for Flux Leakage Examination of Ferromag-
netic Steel Tubular Products
1.1 This specification covers electric-resistance-welded car-
2.2 ANSI Standard:
bon and alloy steel tubing for use as mechanical tubing.
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B 46.1 Surface Texture
1.2 This specification covers mechanical tubing made from
2.3 Military Standards:
hot- or cold-rolled steel.
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MIL-STD-129 Marking for Shipment and Storage
1.3 This specification covers round, square, rectangular, and
MIL-STD-163 Steel Mill Products Preparation for Ship-
special shape tubing.
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ment and Storage
Size Range
2.4 Federal Standard:
Type (Round Tubing)
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Electric-Resistance-Welded Tubing outside diameter from ⁄2
Fed. Std. No. 123 Marking for Shipments (CivilAgencies)
from Hot-Rolled Steel to 15 in. (19.0 to 381.0 mm)
wall from 0.065 to 0.650 in.
3. Ordering Information
(1.65 to 16.50 mm)
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Electric-Resistance-Welded Tubing outside diameter from ⁄8 to 12 in.
3.1 Orders for material under this specification should
from Cold-Rolled Steel (9.92 to 304.8 mm)
include the following as required to adequately describe the
wall from 0.022 to 0.134 in. (0.71
desired material:
to 3.40 mm)
3.1.1 Quantity (feet or number of lengths),
1.4 Optional supplementary requirements are provided and
3.1.2 Name of material (electric resistance-welded carbon
when desired, shall be so stated in the order.
or alloy steel mechanical tubing),
1.5 The values stated in inch-pound units are to be regarded
3.1.3 Types, conditions and code letters, (Sections 1 and
as the standard.
12),
3.1.4 Thermal condition, (12.2),
2. Referenced Documents
3.1.5 Flash condition, (12.3),
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2.1 ASTM Standards:
3.1.6 Grade designation, if required, (Section 5),
A 370 Test Methods and Definitions for MechanicalTesting
3.1.7 Report chemical analysis and product analysis, if
of Steel Products
required (Sections 6 and 7),
E 1806 Practice for Sampling Steel and Iron for Determi-
3.1.8 Individual supplementary requirements, if required
nation of Chemical Composition
(S1 to S10, inclusive),
E 213 Practice for Ultrasonic Examination of Metal Pipe
3.1.9 Cross section (round, square, rectangular and special
and Tubing
shapes),
E 273 Practice for Ultrasonic Examination of the Weld
3.1.10 Dimensions, round, outside and inside and wall
Zone of Welded Pipe and Tubing
thickness (see 8.1 and 8.2) or square and rectangular, outside
E 309 Practice for Eddy-Current Examination of Steel Tu-
dimension and wall thickness and corner radii, if required (see
bular Products Using Magnetic Saturation
9.1 and 9.2),
3.1.11 Length, round, mill lengths or definite cut length (see
8.3), square and rectangular, specified length (see 9.4),
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3.1.12 Squareness of cut, round tubing, if required, (see
This specification is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee A01 on Steel,
Stainless Steel, and RelatedAlloys and is the direct responsibility of Subcommittee
8.4),
A01.09 on Carbon Steel Tubular Products.
Current edition approved Sept. 1, 2006. Published September 2006. Originally
approved in 1964. Last previous edition approved in 2006 as A 513 – 06.
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A 513 – 06a
3.1.13 Burrs removed, if required (see 11.2), 6. Heat Analysis
3.1.14 Protective coating (see 14.1),
6.1 An analysis of each heat of steel shall be made by the
3.1.15 Special packaging (see 17.1),
steel manufacturer to determine the percentages of the ele-
3.1.16 Specification designation, ments specified; if secondary melting processes are employed,
the heat analysis shall be obtained from one remelted ingot or
3.1.17 End use,
the product of one remelted in
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