ASTM's copper standards are instrumental in classifying, evaluating, and specifying the material, chemical, mechanical, and metallurgical properties of copper materials, including bronze and their alloys with other metals. These materials when in the raw form are fabricated into basic shapes like sheets, strips, plates, bars, beams, disks, rods, wires, and ingots. Conversely, finished products are molded into more complicated shapes according to their intended purpose such as pipes and tubes. Moreover, as judged fit, these materials are utilized for bridges and turntables, locomotive parts, pressure vessels, heat exchangers and condensers, electrolytic cathodes, machine bearings, and air conditioning and refrigeration components. These copper standards are helpful in guiding metallurgical laboratories and refineries, product manufacturers, and other end-users of copper and its alloys in their proper processing and application procedures to ensure their quality towards safe use.
Copper Standards
ASTM's copper standards are instrumental in classifying, evaluating, and specifying the material, chemical, mechanical, and metallurgical properties of copper materials, including bronze and their alloys with other metals. These materials when in the raw form are fabricated into basic shapes like sheets, strips, plates, bars, beams, disks, rods, wires, and ingots. Conversely, finished products are molded into more complicated shapes according to their intended purpose such as pipes and tubes. Moreover, as judged fit, these materials are utilized for bridges and turntables, locomotive parts, pressure vessels, heat exchangers and condensers, electrolytic cathodes, machine bearings, and air conditioning and refrigeration components. These copper standards are helpful in guiding metallurgical laboratories and refineries, product manufacturers, and other end-users of copper and its alloys in their proper processing and application procedures to ensure their quality towards safe use.
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Castings and Ingots for Remelting
B427-21 Standard Specification for Gear Bronze Alloy Castings
B62-17 Standard Specification for Composition Bronze or Ounce Metal Castings
B22/B22M-17 Standard Specification for Bronze Castings for Bridges and Turntables
B824-17 Standard Specification for General Requirements for Copper Alloy Castings
B66-15(2021) Standard Specification for Bronze Castings for Steam Locomotive Wearing Parts
B61-15(2021) Standard Specification for Steam or Valve Bronze Castings
B770-21 Standard Specification for Copper-Beryllium Alloy Sand Castings for General Applications
B67-14(2022) Standard Specification for Car and Tender Journal Bearings, Lined
B584-22 Standard Specification for Copper Alloy Sand Castings for General Applications
B30-23 Standard Specification for Copper Alloys in Ingot and Other Remelt Forms
B271/B271M-23 Standard Specification for Copper-Base Alloy Centrifugal Castings
B505/B505M-23 Standard Specification for Copper Alloy Continuous Castings
B763/B763M-23 Standard Specification for Copper Alloy Sand Castings for Valve Applications
B806-23 Standard Specification for Copper Alloy Permanent Mold Castings for General Applications
B176-18(2024) Standard Specification for Copper-Alloy Die Castings
B644-24 Standard Specification for Copper Alloy Addition Agents
B148-24 Standard Specification for Aluminum-Bronze Sand Castings
B369/B369M-24 Standard Specification for Copper-Nickel Alloy Castings
Editorial and Publications
Methods of Test
B593-21 Standard Test Method for Bending Fatigue Testing for Copper-Alloy Spring Materials
B154-16(2022) Standard Test Method for Mercurous Nitrate Test for Copper Alloys
B968/B968M-16(2022) Standard Test Method for Flattening of Copper and Copper-Alloy Pipe and Tube
B153-22 Standard Test Method for Expansion (Pin Test) of Copper and Copper-Alloy Pipe and Tubing
Pipe and Tube
B306-20 Standard Specification for Copper Drainage Tube (DWV)
B819-19 Standard Specification for Seamless Copper Tube for Medical Gas Systems
B1017-21 Standard Specification for Seamless Copper-Iron Tube for Air Conditioning and Refrigeration
B135/B135M-17 Standard Specification for Seamless Brass Tube
B302-17 Standard Specification for Threadless Copper Pipe, Standard Sizes
B643-18 Standard Specification for Copper-Beryllium Alloy Seamless Tube
B937-18 Standard Specification for Copper-Beryllium Seamless Tube (UNS Nos. C17500 and C17510)
B466/B466M-18 Standard Specification for Seamless Copper-Nickel Pipe and Tube
B543/B543M-18 Standard Specification for Welded Copper and Copper-Alloy Heat Exchanger Tube
B608-18 Standard Specification for Welded Copper-Alloy Pipe
B68/B68M-19 Standard Specification for Seamless Copper Tube, Bright Annealed
B919-19 Standard Specification for Welded Copper Heat Exchanger Tubes With Internal Enhancement
B587-19 Standard Specification for Welded Brass Tube
B315-19 Standard Specification for Seamless Copper Alloy Pipe and Tube
B42-20 Standard Specification for Seamless Copper Pipe, Standard Sizes
B43-20 Standard Specification for Seamless Red Brass Pipe, Standard Sizes
B360-20 Standard Specification for Hard-Drawn Copper Capillary Tube for Restrictor Applications
B75/B75M-20 Standard Specification for Seamless Copper Tube
B88M-20 Standard Specification for Seamless Copper Water Tube (Metric)
B75M-99(2011) Standard Specification for Seamless Copper Tube (Metric) (Withdrawn 2011)
B135M-10 Standard Specification for Seamless Brass Tube [Metric] (Withdrawn 2017)
B447-12a(2021) Standard Specification for Welded Copper Tube
B372-22 Standard Specification for Seamless Copper and Copper-Alloy Rectangular Waveguide Tube
B467-14(2022) Standard Specification for Welded Copper-Nickel Pipe
B88-22 Standard Specification for Seamless Copper Water Tube
B687-99(2023) Standard Specification for Brass, Copper, and Chromium-Plated Pipe Nipples
B743-23 Standard Specification for Seamless Copper Tube in Coils
B188-15(2023) Standard Specification for Seamless Copper Bus Pipe and Tube
B1003-16(2023) Standard Specification for Seamless Copper Tube for Linesets
B706-24 Standard Specification for Seamless Copper Alloy (UNS No. C69100) Pipe and Tube
Plate, Sheet, and Strip
B169-95 Standard Specification for Aluminum Bronze Sheet, Strip, and Rolled Bar (Withdrawn 2001)
B465-20 Standard Specification for Copper-Iron Alloy Plate, Sheet, Strip, and Rolled Bar
B432-19 Standard Specification for Copper and Copper Alloy Clad Steel Plate
B747-20 Standard Specification for Copper-Zirconium Alloy Sheet and Strip
B169/B169M-20 Standard Specification for Aluminum Bronze Sheet, Strip, and Rolled Bar
B19-20 Standard Specification for Cartridge Brass Sheet, Strip, Plate, Bar, and Disks
B740-21 Standard Specification for Copper-Nickel-Tin Spinodal Alloy Strip
B370-22 Standard Specification for Copper Sheet and Strip for Building Construction
B508-22 Standard Specification for Copper Alloy Strip for Flexible Metal Hose
B129-22 Standard Specification for Cartridge Brass Cartridge Case Cups
B101-22 Standard Specification for Lead-Coated Copper Sheet and Strip for Building Construction
B194-22 Standard Specification for Copper-Beryllium Alloy Plate, Sheet, Strip, and Rolled Bar
B131-22 Standard Specification for Copper Alloy Bullet Jacket Cups
B121/B121M-23 Standard Specification for Leaded Brass Plate, Sheet, Strip, and Rolled Bar
B103/B103M-23 Standard Specification for Phosphor Bronze Plate, Sheet, Strip, and Rolled Bar
B36/B36M-23 Standard Specification for Brass Plate, Sheet, Strip, And Rolled Bar
B152/B152M-24 Standard Specification for Copper Sheet, Strip, Plate, and Rolled Bar
B882-24 Standard Specification for Pre-Patinated Copper for Architectural Applications
B130-24 Standard Specification for Commercial Bronze Strip for Bullet Jackets
Refined Copper
B115-10(2021) Standard Specification for Electrolytic Copper Cathode
B49-20 Standard Specification for Copper Rod for Electrical Purposes
B379-20 Standard Specification for Phosphorized Coppers—Refinery Shapes
B216-22 Standard Specification for Tough-Pitch Fire-Refined Copper—Refinery Shapes
B224-16(2022) Standard Classification of Coppers
B5-22 Standard Specification for High Conductivity Tough-Pitch Copper Refinery Shapes
B170-24 Standard Specification for Oxygen-Free Electrolytic Copper—Refinery Shapes
Rod, Bar, Wire, Shapes and Forgings
B21-96 Standard Specification for Naval Brass Rod, Bar, and Shapes
B139-95 Standard Specification for Phosphor Bronze Rod, Bar, and Shapes (Withdrawn 2001)
B138-96 Standard Specification for Manganese Bronze Rod, Bar and Shapes (Withdrawn 2001)
B150-98e2 Standard Specification for Aluminum Bronze Rod, Bar, and Shapes (Withdrawn 2002)
B196-95a Standard Specification for Copper-Beryllium Alloy Rod and Bar
B453-96 Standard Specification for Copper-Zinc-Lead Alloy (Leaded-Brass) Rod (Withdrawn 2001)
B250/B250M-19 Standard Specification for General Requirements for Wrought Copper Alloy Wire
B134/B134M-15(2021) Standard Specification for Brass Wire
B99/B99M-15(2021) Standard Specification for Copper-Silicon Alloy Wire for General Applications
B98/B98M-13(2019) Standard Specification for Copper-Silicon Alloy Rod, Bar and Shapes
B411/B411M-14(2019) Standard Specification for Copper-Nickel-Silicon Alloy Rod and Bar
B150/B150M-19 Standard Specification for Aluminum Bronze Rod, Bar, and Shapes
B371/B371M-19 Standard Specification for Copper-Zinc-Silicon Alloy Rod
B453/B453M-19 Standard Specification for Copper-Zinc-Lead Alloy (Leaded-Brass) Rod, Bar, and Shapes
B981/B981M-19 Standard Specification for Low-Leaded Brass Rod, Bar, Wire, and Shapes
B21/B21M-20 Standard Specification for Naval Brass Rod, Bar, and Shapes
B124/B124M-20 Standard Specification for Copper and Copper Alloy Forging Rod, Bar, and Shapes
B455/B455M-20 Standard Specification for Copper-Zinc-Lead Alloy (Leaded-Brass) Extruded Shapes
B301/B301M-13(2020) Standard Specification for Free-Cutting Copper Rod, Bar, Wire, and Shapes
B159M-96ae1 Standard Specification for Phosphor Bronze Wire [Metric] (Withdrawn 2001)
B974/B974M-16(2021) Standard Specification for Free-Cutting Bismuth Brass Rod, Bar and Wire
B150M-95a Standard Specification for Aluminum Bronze, Rod, Bar, and Shapes [Metric] (Withdrawn 2002)
B138M-96 Standard Specification for Manganese Bronze Rod, Bar and Shapes [Metric] (Withdrawn 2001)
B301M-96 Standard Specification for Free-Cutting Copper Rod and Bar [Metric] (Withdrawn 1999)
B139M-95 Standard Specification for Phosphor Bronze Rod, Bar, and Shapes [Metric] (Withdrawn 2001)
B197M-93 Standard Specification for Copper-Beryllium Alloy Wire [Metric] (Withdrawn 1998)
B196M-97 Standard Specification for Copper-Beryllium Alloy Rod and Bar [Metric] (Withdrawn 2001)
B133M-93A Specification for Copper Rod, Bar, And Shapes Metric (Withdrawn 1994)
B159-96ae1 Standard Specification for Phosphor Bronze Wire (Withdrawn 2001)
B187M-97 Standard Specification for Copper Bar, Bus Bar, Rod and Shapes [Metric] (Withdrawn 2002)
B371-96 Standard Specification for Copper-Zinc-Silicon Alloy Rod (Withdrawn 2002)
B21M-96 Standard Specification for Naval Brass Rod, Bar, and Shapes [Metric] (Withdrawn 2001)
B197/B197M-20e1 Standard Specification for Copper-Beryllium Alloy Wire
B412-95 Standard Specification for Copper-Nickel-Silicon Alloy Wire (Withdrawn 2000)
B929-23 Standard Specification for Copper-Nickel-Tin Spinodal Alloy Rod and Bar
B967/B967M-18(2023) Standard Specification for Copper-Zinc-Tin-Bismuth Alloy Rod, Bar and Wire
B927/B927M-23 Standard Specification for Brass Rod, Bar, and Shapes
B1001-23 Standard Specification for Copper Electrode Wire Used for Welding Seams of Steel Cans
B196/B196M-24 Standard Specification for Copper-Beryllium Alloy Rod and Bar
B138/B138M-11(2024) Standard Specification for Manganese Bronze Rod, Bar, and Shapes
B139/B139M-12(2024) Standard Specification for Phosphor Bronze Rod, Bar, and Shapes
B159/B159M-17(2024) Standard Specification for Phosphor Bronze Wire
F68-16(2024) Standard Specification for Oxygen-Free Copper in Wrought Forms for Electron Devices
B283/B283M-24 Standard Specification for Copper and Copper-Alloy Die Forgings (Hot-Pressed)