Issuing body
ASTM
Latest edition
A370-23
Region
USA, Global
Equipment items
0
Scope
Tensile, hardness, impact (Charpy V-notch), and bend test methods for steels.
Key requirements (7)
- Standard test methods and definitions for mechanical testing of steel products.
- Tension test: yield, UTS, elongation, reduction of area.
- Charpy V-notch impact: 5/10/27/40 J typical acceptance per service.
- Hardness: Brinell, Rockwell B/C, Vickers conversions.
- Bend test: typically 180° around mandrel of specified diameter.
- Test specimen geometries for plate, pipe, bar, structural shapes.
- Referenced by virtually every ASTM steel material spec.