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Properties/Standards Publications

Properties/Standards Publications

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104/5: Low-Temperature Properties of Coppers and Copper Alloys

Tables and graphs give tensile, impact and fatigue properties, thermal expansion and conductivity of 14 major coppers and copper alloys. (6 pgs.)

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1237: Copper and Copper Alloy Tube and Pipe

Describes how copper tube and pipe are made, commercial specifications and standards and major end uses. Design and installation data are summarized as well as future application trends for tube and pipe. Reprint, ASTM Standardization News, September 1987.

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129/6: Copper and Copper Alloy Powder Metallurgy-Properties and ApplicationsView Report
144/8R: Mechanical Properties of Copper and Copper Alloys at Low Temperatures

Tables and stress-strain curves of elastic and plastic properties of 15 alloys down to 4°K (-454 F). (8 pgs.)

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163/0: Mechanical Properties of Soldered Copper

The properties important for soldered joints are shear strength, creep strength, burst strength and pressure ratings, fracture initiation strength and tensile strength.

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701/4: Wear Properties of Heavily Loaded Copper-Base Bearing Alloys

Discusses the microstructure, bearing properties and wear mechanisms of four copper-base bearing alloys. Includes phase diagrams and photomicrographs. Reprint, Journal of Metals, October 1983. (6 pgs.)

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703/5: Metallurgy of Copper-Base Alloys

How structure and properties of cast copper alloys depend on consumption and comparative data on applications and relative costs of 13 standard bearing alloys. Reprint, Casting Engineering & Foundry World. (7 pgs.) 

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A1310: Microconstituents and Microstructures in Nickel-Aluminum Bronzes

This publication presents a coherent picture of the nature, and the nomenclature of the phases, microstructures that develop in nickel-aluminum bronzes (NAB). (75 pgs.)

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A1360: The Copper Advantage-A Guide to Working With Copper and Copper Alloys

This booklet gives an in-depth overview of the well-known physical, mechanical and chemical properties of copper, as well as more recent scientific findings that show copper has an intrinsic antimicrobial property.

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A4070: Diamond Anniversary for ASTM Copper Committee

Reprinted, with permission, from ASTM Standardization News, Vol. 32, No. 10, Copyright © ASTM International, 100 Barr Harbor Drive, West Conshohocken, PA 19428

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A6022: Ampacities and Mechanical Properties of Rectangular Copper Busbar

Ampacity tables, mechanical properties of C11000 bus; quick busbar size selector; effect of emissivity and number of buses.

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