ASTM Steel Specifications, Mechanical Testing, and Material Test Reports
This live online training course is offered by ASTM International.
Course Description
This two-day course is designed for the purchaser, manufacturer, fabricator, supplier, and others to learn the basics of ASTM steel specification requirements for mechanical testing to improve your ability to correctly:
- read, write, and review a steel product specification and purchase order,
- based on ASTM Steel Specifications and ASTM A370 Test Methods,
- including the basics of preparing or reviewing material test reports to evaluate product acceptance or rejection.
These goals are achieved by studying more than 50 Connecting-the-Standards© Examples covering more than 40 ASTM specifications, test methods, practices, and terminology standards.
This course also includes free access to the ASTM Steel Standards Structure Virtual Training Course.
Learning Outcomes [+]
After this course you will be able to read, review, and write steel product specifications and purchase orders with improved knowledge of mechanical properties testing requirements and test methods based on ASTM standards by:
- identifying the different types of ASTM steel standards, their functions, terminology, and designation systems, including how and why they differ from other steel specifications and designations like AISI, ASME, SAE, etc.;
- identifying common mechanical properties testing requirements and test methods to be included in the purchaser’s steel specification and purchase order;
- distinguishing how and why ASTM specifications mechanical properties requirements and test methods differ with varying product forms, such as plate, sheet, strip, pipe, tube, shapes, forgings, etc.);
- identifying mandatory, nonmandatory or not included, and purchaser requested mechanical testing requirements;
- determining the correct type, number, size, orientation, location, condition, and product form specific test specimens based on ASTM steel product specification and how they differ with steel product forms;
- determining whether anisotropic behavior of an ordered steel product will affect its mechanical properties and how to specify the correct testing procedures to address it;
- evaluating how and why the ASTM A370 standard for mechanical testing of steel products is specified;
- correctly performing mechanical testing of steel products in accordance with the ASTM A370 testing procedures; and
- correctly accepting, retesting, rejecting, or rehearing a steel product based on the purchaser’s steel specification, referenced ASTM specification, purchase order and its material test report.
Who Should Attend
This course is designed for all personnel involved with steels and particularly ASTM Steel Standards, such as: engineers, inspectors, QA/QC coordinators, NDE examiners, purchasers, inventory control personnel, tradespeople, manufacturing, fabricating and repair companies, engineering procurement companies, construction companies, and others working in most industries that use steel, including: civil construction (buildings, bridges), pressure equipment, ship building, water treatment, pipelines, oil and gas industries (oilfield, upgraders, refineries, etc.), chemical plants, petroleum refining, petrochemical plants, power plants, pulp and paper plants, fertilizer plants, and many others.
Course Outline [+]
- What are the different types and functions of ASTM standards?
- What are the common mechanical property requirements and test methods in ASTM steel specifications?
- How to identify mandatory, nonmandatory or not included mechanical testing requirements in ASTM steel specifications?
- How to specify and order purchaser requested mechanical testing requirements?
- How and why do ASTM specifications mechanical properties requirements and test methods differ with varying product forms, such as plate, sheet, strip, pipe, tube, shapes, forgings, etc.)?
- How to determine the correct mechanical test specimen:
- type,
- number,
- size (standard and subsize),
- orientation (anisotropic requirements),
- sample location removal from the steel product,
- condition, and
- how and why do these differ with varying steel product forms?
- How to correctly perform mechanical testing of steel products in accordance with the ASTM A370 testing procedures?
- Tension tests for steel:
- plate-type specimens
- sheet-type specimens
- round specimens
- converting percentage elongation of round specimens to equivalents for flat specimens
- bar products
- tubular products
- fasteners
- round wire products
- Impact tests for steel:
- Charpy V-notch impact test
- Izod impact test
- o Hardness tests for steel:
- Brinell hardness fixed-location testing
- Rockwell hardness fixed-location testing
- Portable hardness testing: ASTM A833, A956, A1038, and E110
- Vickers hardness fixed-location testing: ASTM E92 and E384 (not in ASTM A370)
- Bend tests for steel
- Tension tests for steel:
- How to determine whether anisotropic behavior of an ordered rolled or forged steel product will affect its mechanical properties and why is it important?
- How to specify the correct testing procedures to address anisotropic behavior of an ordered rolled or forged steel product in accordance with ASTM A370?
- How to evaluate the finished steel product’s:
- acceptance,
- retesting procedure and acceptance,
- rejection, and
- rehearing.
- What is the purpose of a material test report (MTR) and which mechanical properties are required to be included in it?
- How is an MTR used to accept, retest, reject, or rehear an ordered steel product based the purchaser’s steel specification, referenced ASTM specification, and the purchase order mechanical properties requirements?
- How are the mechanical properties test results reported in an MTR correctly reviewed based on the purchaser’s steel specification, referenced ASTM specification, and/or purchase order?
- Why do MTRs include multiple specifications, grades, and additional mechanical properties or data that are not included in the purchaser’s steel specification, referenced ASTM specification, and/or purchase order and how are they reviewed?
- What are the bases for accepting, retesting, rejecting, and rehearing a steel product based on the purchaser’s steel specification, referenced ASTM specification, purchase order and its material test report?
Learning Assessment
Learning will be assessed through discussions. Participants are encouraged to ask questions if an issue is unclear to them.
Fee Includes
- Referenced ASTM standards (available during the live course);
- digital course notebook; and
- free access to the ASTM Steel Standards Structure Virtual Training Course.
