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About this publication
Preface
1 Scope and general
1.1 Scope
1.2 Normative documents
1.3 Definitions
1.4 Surface conditioning and surface treatment
1.4.1 General
1.4.2 Surface conditioning
1.4.2.1 Skin passing
1.4.2.2 Spangle suppression
1.4.3 Chemical surface treatment
1.4.3.1 Organic layer
1.4.3.2 Passivation
1.4.3.3 Oiling
1.5 Product designation
1.5.1 General
1.5.2 Designation of steel grade
1.5.2.1 General
1.5.2.2 For structural grades
1.5.2.3 For formability grades
1.5.3 Designation of coating class and surface finish
1.5.3.1 Zinc coating class
1.5.3.2 Zinc/aluminium coating class
1.5.3.3 Zinc/aluminium/magnesium coating class
1.5.3.4 Aluminium/zinc coating class
1.5.3.5 Aluminium/zinc/magnesium coating class
1.5.3.6 Surface finish
1.5.3.6.1 General
1.5.3.6.2 Regular spangle—designated ‘R’ or not stated
1.5.3.6.3 Spangle free—‘f’
1.5.3.6.4 Minimized spangle—designated ‘M’
1.5.3.6.5 Skin passed or smooth finish—designated ‘S’
1.6 Rounding of test result values
1.6.1 General
1.6.2 For tensile test results
1.6.3 For coating mass results
1.7 Marking
1.7.1 Package
1.7.2 Product
2 The steel base
2.1 Scope of section
2.2 Chemical composition
2.2.1 General
2.2.2 Cast analysis
2.2.3 Unspecified chemical elements
2.2.4 Product analysis
2.3 Tensile test
2.3.1 General
2.3.2 Orientation of test piece
2.3.2.1 For formability grades
2.3.2.2 For structural grades
2.4 Bend test
2.4.1 General
2.4.2 Orientation of test pieces
2.5 Dimensional tolerances
2.5.1 General
2.5.2 Specified thickness
3 The coating
3.1 Scope of section
3.2 Determination of coating mass
3.2.1 General
3.2.2 Test specimens for spot tests
3.2.3 Offline testing
3.2.4 Continuous monitoring
3.3 Determination of coating adhesion
3.3.1 General
3.3.2 Selection of test specimen
Appendix A
A1 General
A2 Information to be supplied by the purchaser
Appendix B
B1 Scope
B2 Sampling and testing
B2.1 General
B2.2 Minimum batch sampling and testing
B2.3 Statistical sampling
B2.3.1 General
B2.3.2 Retest
Appendix C
C1 General
C2 Calculation of total coating thickness
C3 The mass per square metre of steel plus coating
C4 Approximate coating thickness
Appendix D
D1 Scope and changes to this standard
D1.1 Scope
D1.2 Changes made to this Standard in this revision, and explanatory notes
D2 Fabricating characteristics
D2.1 Skin passing
D2.2 Specific grades
D3 Coating types
D3.1 Coating classes
D3.2 Coating types
D3.2.1 General
D3.2.2 Zinc coating (Types Z and ZF)
D3.2.3 Zinc/aluminium coating (Type ZA)
D3.2.4 Zinc/aluminium/magnesium coating (Type ZM)
D3.2.5 Aluminium/zinc alloy coating (Type AZ)
D3.2.6 Aluminium/zinc/magnesium alloy coating (Type AM)
Bibliography
Amendment control sheet
AS 1397—2011
Amendment No. 1 (2012)
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