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Steel Welded Wire Reinforcement, Plain, For Concrete
Steel Welded Wire Reinforcement, Plain, For Concrete
Steel Welded Wire Reinforcement, Plain, For Concrete
1. Scope* 3. Terminology
1.1 This specification covers welded wire reinforcement to 3.1 Definitions of Terms Specific to This Standard:
be used for the reinforcement of concrete. 3.1.1 convoluted wire—when wire for welded wire rein-
NOTE 1—Welded wire for concrete reinforcement has been described forcement is formed into a sinusoidal wave shape, it is
by various terms: welded wire fabric, WWF, fabric, and mesh. The wire
reinforcement industry prefers the term “welded wire reinforcement”
commonly referred to as convoluted wire. The wire is used in
(WWR) as being more representative of the range of products being the manufacture of cages for certain applications of concrete
manufactured. Therefore, the term “welded wire fabric” has been replaced pipe reinforcing.
with the term “welded wire reinforcement” in this specification and in
related specifications. 3.1.2 welded wire reinforcement—as used within the scope
and intent of this specification, designates a material composed
1.2 The values stated in either SI units or inch-pound units of cold-drawn steel wire, as-drawn or galvanized, fabricated
are to be regarded separately as standard. The values stated in into sheets or rolls by the process of electric resistance
each system may not be exact equivalents; therefore, each welding. The finished material shall consist essentially of a
system shall be used independently of the other. Combining series of longitudinal and transverse wires arranged substan-
values from the two systems may result in non-conformance tially at right angles to each other, and welded together at
with the standard. (Within the text the inch-pound units are points of intersection.
shown in brackets.)
2. Referenced Documents 4. Ordering Information
2 4.1 It shall be the responsibility of the purchaser to specify
2.1 ASTM Standards:
A82/A82M Specification for Steel Wire, Plain, for Concrete all requirements that are necessary for the manufacture and
Reinforcement delivery of the welded wire reinforcement under this specifi-
A700 Practices for Packaging, Marking, and Loading Meth- cation. Such requirements to be considered include, but are not
ods for Steel Products for Shipment limited to, the following:
2.2 Military Standard:3 4.1.1 Quantity (mass [weight] or square area),
MIL-STD-129 Marking for Shipment and Storage 4.1.2 Name of material (welded wire reinforcement for
2.3 Federal Standard:3 concrete),
Fed. Std. No. 123 Marking for Shipments (Civil Agencies) 4.1.3 Wire spacings and sizes,
2.4 ASTM Adjuncts: 4.1.4 Minimum yield strength if Supplement S1 of Specifi-
Testing Jig Drawing4 cation A82/A82M applies.
4.1.5 Yield strength measurement. The purchaser shall have
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This specification is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee A01 on Steel, the options described in Specification A82/A82M, under the
Stainless Steel and Related Alloys and is the direct responsibility of Subcommittee Inspection section (11.3).
A01.05 on Steel Reinforcement.
Current edition approved Sept. 1, 2007. Published October 2007. Originally 4.1.6 Exclusion of oversteeling, if required (see 8.4.2),
approved in 1936. Last previous edition approved in 2006 as A185/A185M–06´1. 4.1.7 Length and width of sheets or rolls,
DOI: 10.1520/A0185_A0185M-07.
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For referenced ASTM standards, visit the ASTM website, www.astm.org, or 4.1.8 Packaging (see Section 15),
contact ASTM Customer Service at service@astm.org. For Annual Book of ASTM 4.1.9 Request for outside inspection (if not requested, 15.1
Standards volume information, refer to the standard’s Document Summary page on
applies), and
the ASTM website.
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Available from Standardization Documents Order Desk, DODSSP, Bldg. 4, 4.1.10 ASTM designation and year of issue.
Section D, 700 Robbins Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19111-5098, http://
www.dodssp.daps.mil. NOTE 2—A typical ordering description is as follows: 100 × 300 –
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Available from ASTM International Headquarters. Order Adjunct No. MW100 × MW40 2450 mm × 6 m [4 × 12 – W15 × W6 96 in. × 20 ft.]
ADJA0185. Original adjunct produced in 1967. in secured bundles of flat sheets, to ASTM A185 – _______ .
NOTE 1—A detailed drawing showing complete dimensions of the testing jig may be obtained from ASTM International.
FIG. 1 Welded Wire Reinforcement Weld Tester
13.2 In case a specimen fails to meet the tension or bend specification with respect to bend test requirements, provided
test, the material shall not be rejected until two additional both additional specimens satisfactorily pass the prescribed
specimens taken from other wires in the same sheet or roll have bend test.
been tested. The material shall be considered as meeting the
13.3 Any material that is found not to meet the requirements
specification with respect to any prescribed tensile property,
of this specification subsequent to its acceptance at the manu-
provided the tested average for the three specimens, including
facturer’s facilities shall be subject to rejection and the
the specimen originally tested, is equal to or exceeds the
manufacturer shall be promptly notified.
required minimum for the particular property in question, and
provided further that none of the three specimens develops less 13.4 Welded intersections shall withstand normal shipping
than 80 % of the required minimum for the tensile property in and handling without becoming broken, but the presence of
question. The material shall be considered as meeting this broken welds, regardless of cause, shall not constitute cause for
Committee A01 has identified the location of selected changes to this standard since the last issue
(A185/A185M–06´1) that may impact the use of this standard.
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