AS/NZS 1594:2025 aims to ensure that hot-rolled steel plate, floorplate, steel and strip, rolled on a continuous mill meets the needs of users in areas of dimensional tolerances and material requirements.
Table of contents
Header
About this publication
Preface
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 Designation
4.1 General
4.2 Analysis grades
4.2.1 General
4.2.2 Modification identifiers
4.3 Formability grades
4.3.1 General
4.3.2 Modification identifiers
4.4 Extra formability grades
4.5 Structural grades
4.5.1 General
4.5.2 Modification identifiers
4.6 Additional properties
5 Manufacturing process
5.1 Steel-making process
5.2 Finished product
6 Chemical composition
6.1 General
6.2 Cast analysis
6.3 Product analysis
6.4 IIW carbon equivalent
6.5 Other elements
7 Manufacturing tolerances
8 Defects
9 Testing
9.1 General
9.2 Selection of test samples
9.3 Position and orientation of test pieces
9.4 Preparation of test pieces
9.4.1 General
9.4.2 Tensile and strain-age tensile test
9.4.3 Impact test
9.4.4 Bend test
9.5 Mechanical testing
9.5.1 Tensile test
9.5.2 Charpy V-notch impact test
9.5.3 Bend test
9.5.4 Strain-age tensile test (applicable to non-ageing grades only)
