ASTM Standards: Making Steel Plate, Pipe, Shapes, & Forgings

Participants will be able to: (a) recall how steel is made to produce wrought products; (b) identify and apply ASTM standard steel terminology for wrought steel products; (c) recall manufacturing methods for steel ingots and strand cast blooms, billets, and slabs, as used in ASTM Standards; (d) describe what a heat of steel, heat analysis, product analysis, and lot of steel are, as defined in ASTM Standards; (e) discuss steel refining practices such as inclusion control, rimmed, killed, and semikilled steels, and how these practices are used in ASTM Standards; (f) describe how rolled, forged, tubular, and wire steel products are made and how each unique product form is specified in ASTM Standards; (g) and recall the anisotropic behavior of steels due the manufacturing direction of working and how this behavior affects the mechanical properties and testing of wrought steel products.