Indian Standard

SPECIFICATION FOR WROUGHT

ALUMINIUM AND ALUMINIUM ALLOY
PLATE FOR GENERAL ENGINEERING
PURPOSES
(Fourth Revision)
 IS 736 : 2018

Indian Standard

SPECIFICATION FOR WROUGHT

ALUMINIUM AND ALUMINIUM ALLOY
PLATE FOR GENERAL ENGINEERING
PURPOSES
(Fourth Revision)

1 SCOPE For the purpose of this standard, the definitions

as given in IS 5047 (Part 1) and IS 5047 (Part 2)
This standard covers the requirements for and the following shall apply.
wrought aluminium and aluminium alloy plates
3.1 Plate
for general engineering purposes. It also covers
Hot or cold rolled product of rectangular section,
ordering information, material, sampling,
6.0 mm thick and thicker. It may be either in
packaging & marking requirements and BIS
straight length or in coil form. It has less control
certification.
of surface finish and tolerance then applied to
2 REFERENCES sheet.
3.2 Heat Treatment Batch
The following standards contain provisions
which through reference in this text, constitute A quantity of material of one alloy of the same
provision of this standard. At the time of dimensions and produced in the same way,
publication, the editions indicted were valid. All solution-treated and subsequently precipitation
standards are subject to revision and parties to treated in one furnace load. More than one heat-
agreements based on this standard are treatment batch may comprise a furnace load.
encouraged to investigate the possibility of 3.3 Purchaser – The purchaser of wrought
applying the most recent editions of the aluminium and aluminium alloy plate for general
standards indicated below. engineering purposes.
3.4 Supplier – The supplier of wrought
IS No. Title
aluminium and aluminium alloy plate for general
10259: 2017 General condition of
engineering purposes.
delivery and inspection of
3.5 Level-A packaging – The packaging
aluminium and aluminium
applicable for transfer of goods from one country
alloy products (First to another country (i.e. import-export).
Revision)
3.6 Commercial Packaging – The packaging
applicable for transfer of goods within the
3 DEFINITION AND
country.
TERMINOLOGY

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4 ORDERING INFORMATION 8.3 The tensile test piece shall be of
rectangular section and having the dimensions as
The ordering information shall include the
given in IS 1816 with a gauge length of 5O mm.
following information:
The test piece shall be cut transverse to the
4.1 HS Code for custom tariff / HSN Code
direction of rolling for plates 300mm wide and
under GST (for domestic trade);
over, and parallel to the direction of rolling for
4.2 Applicable Indian Standard;
plates under 300 mm wide. When the width of
4.3 Gross weight of the consignment; the material to be tested is insufficient to permit
4.4 The required chemical composition (7) preparation of the standard tensile test piece, a
and dimensions and tolerances (10) piece of the full width of material may be used.
4.5 Port of delivery (for imported product),
and 9 CONDITION
4.6 The necessary certifications and The material shall be supplied in the condition as
documentations as required by Indian laws. required by the purchaser. While specifying the
condition, the temper designations laid down in
5 SUPPLY OF MATERIAL IS 5052 shall be followed.
5.1 General requirements for the supply of
aluminium and aluminium alloy products shall 10 DIMENSIONS AND
conform to IS 10259. TOLERANCES
The dimensions of plate and their tolerances
6 FREE FROM DEFECTS shall be as specified in IS 2677.
The material shall be sound and free from
harmful defects. 11 SELECTION OF TEST
SAMPLES
7 CHEMICAL COMPOSITION 11.1 Plate of Aluminium or Non-Heat-
7.1 The chemical composition of the Treatable Aluminium Alloys
aluminium and aluminium alloys used for the Material of the same thickness, produced in the
plates shall be as per Table 2. same way, and of the same nominal composition
7.2 The chemical composition of the material shall be grouped. into batches of not more than 4
shall be determined by any established 000 kg.
instrumental method. 11.1.1 The supplier shall sample each batch at
such rate that he may, on the results of the
8 MECHANICAL
mechanical tests on the samples, certify that the
PROPERTIES
material conforms to this standard.
8.1 The mechanical properties of the plate
11.1.2 Before the test samples are cut-off, they
shall comply with the requirements given in
shall be marked to identify them with the batch
Table 3.
they represent. The test samples shall be taken
8.2 The tensile test shall be carried out and from the material as supplied and shall not be
proof stress determined thereby in accordance further annealed or mechanically worked (except
with IS 1816. for preparing the test piece) before being tested.
The test samples may be out from the margins of
the material before cutting it to size.

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11.2 Plate of Heat-Treatable Aluminium 12.2 For heat-treatable alloys the supplier
Alloys shall have the right if he so desires, to reheat-
One test sample shall be cut from a plate, from treat the material before the two further samples
each heat-treatment batch. Before the test are selected.
samples are cut off, they shall be marked to 12.3 Should the test pieces from both these
identify them with the heat-treatment batch they additional samples pass, the batch represented by
represent. the test samples shall be deemed to comply with
11.2.1 For material supplied in M condition, the this standard. Should the test pieces from either
test samples shall be tested in the O, W or WP of these additional samples fail, the batch
condition, after heat-treatment as appropriate or represented by the test samples shall be deemed
as specified by the purchaser. The test samples, not to comply with this standard.
after heat-treatment, shall not be mechanically 12.4 The Supplier shall furnish a certificate
worked (except for straightening and preparing with each consignment giving details of grade,
the test piece) before being tested. condition, batch number and corresponding
chemical composition and mechanical
11.2.2 Material in the O condition, when heat-
properties.
treated, may be expected to have properties of
the order of 15 MPa less than the specified 13 RESTRICTION ON HEAVY
properties for the W or WP conditions as METALS
appropriate.
13.1 The content of heavy metals in the
11.2.3 For material supplied in the W condition wrought aluminium and aluminium alloy plate
the test samples shall be tested in the condition for general engineering purposes shall not
as supplied, unless the purchaser has specified exceed the limit as given in Table 1.
that he requires the test samples to be tested in Table 1: Maximum Limit of Heavy Materials (in PPM)
the WP condition. The test samples shall not be
Maximum limit
mechanically worked (except for preparing the Heavy Metal
(in PPM)
test piece) before being tested. The test samples Lead 1 000
may be cut from the margins of the material Mercury 1 000
before cutting it to size. Cadmium 100
Hexavalent Chromium 1 000
11.2.4 For material supplied in the WP 13.2 The testing for the heavy metals shall be
condition, the test samples shall be tested in the conducted as mentioned in IS 10259.
condition as supplied. The test samples shall not
be further heat treated or mechanically worked 14 PACKAGING
(except for preparing the test piece) before being
For the purpose of this standard, the following
tested. The test samples may be cut from the
packaging methods and those given in IS 10259
margins of the material before cutting it to size.
shall apply.
12 RETESTS 15 MARKING AND
12.1 Should any one of the test pieces first LABELLING
selected fail to pass the mechanical test, two
For the purpose of this standard, the following
further samples from the same lot shall be
marking and labelling methods and those given
selected for testing.
in IS 10259 shall apply.

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15.1 Each package or, coil of plate(s) shall be
suitable marked with the following details.
a) Name of the manufacturer,
b) Grade and condition of the material; and
c) Batch number
15.2 The material may also be marked with
the Standard Mark.

16 BIS CERTIFICATION
MARKING
The use of the Standard Mark is governed by the
provision of the Bureau of Indian Standards Act,
1986 and the Rules and Regulations made there
under. The details of conditions under which the
licence for the use of the Standard Mark may be
granted to manufacturers or producers may be
obtained from the Bureau of Indian Standards.

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Table 2 Chemical composition of wrought aluminium and aluminium alloy plates

(Composition limits are in percent maximum, unless shown otherwise)
(Clause 7.1)

Microsoft Excel
97-2003 Worksheet

NOTE- It is the responsibility of the supplier to ensure that any element not specially limited is not present in an
amount such as IS generally accepted as having an adverse effect on the product. If a purchaser's requirements
necessitate limits for any element not specified. it should be agreed between the purchaser and the supplier.
*- Titanium and/or other grain refining elements and/or chromium may be present at the option of the supplier
provided the total content does not exceed 0.3 percent

Table 3 Mechanical properties of wrought aluminium and aluminium alloy plates

(Clause 8.1)
0.2 percent
Designatio Conditio Tensile Strength Elongation on 50mm Gauge Length,
Proof Stress
n n MPA Percent, Min
MPA
Over 6.0 mm, up Over 12.5 mm, up
Min Min Max to and including to and including
12.5 mm 25 mm
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7)
19800 M 0 55 30 30
O 0 0 90 34 34
H2 0 85 110 8 0
19700 M 0 60 - 30 30
O 0 0 95 34 34
H2 0 90 115 8 0
19600 M 0 60 0 28 28
O 0 0 100 30 30
H2 0 95 125 7 0
19500 M 0 65 0 28 28
O 0 0 100 30 30
H2 0 100 135 7 0
19000 M 0 70 0 28 28
O 0 70 110 28 28
H2 0 110 140 7 0
24345 M 0 150 0 10 10
O 0 0 240 12 10
W 225 390 0 12 10
WP 310 405 0 7 5
24345 M 0 150 0 10 10
Al clad O 0 0 240 12 10
W 230 375 0 12 10
WP 345 420 0 7 5
31000 M 0 95 0 23 23
O 0 90 130 22 23
H2 0 130 180 5 0
40800 M 0 90 0 28 28
O 0 85 120 30 30
H2 0 120 160 7 0

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51000-A M 0 105 0 20 20
O 0 95 145 22 22
H2 0 140 190 4 0
51000-B M 0 135 0 17 17
O 0 125 170 19 19
H2 0 170 0 4 0
52000 M 0 190 0 12 12
O 60 175 215 18 18
W 115 200 - 15 15
WP 250 295 - 5 5
H2 60 200 255 5 0
53000 M 0 215 12 12
O 85 205 265 16 16
H2 190 280 325 5 0
54300 M 125 280 0 12 12
O 115 270 340 16 16
H2 275 355 0 5 0
55000 M 125 275 0 0 0
O 100 265 355 16 16
H2 275 355 0 5 0
64430 M 0 110 0 12 12
O 0 0 150 15 15
W 115 200 0 15 15
WP 240 280 0 8 8
65032 M 0 110 0 12 12
O 0 0 150 15 15
W 110 200 0 15 15
WP 235 280 0 8 8
W
(naturally
74530 160 265 0 8 8
aged for
30 days)
WP 255 305 0 7 7
65028 M - 110 12 12
O - - 150 15 15
T4 110 200 15 15
T6 235 280 8 8

NOTES
1 MPa = 1 N/mm2 = 0.102 kgf/mm2
Properties in M temper are for information only.