1、Designation:B26/B26M141Standard Specification forAluminum-Alloy Sand Castings1This standard is issued under the fixed designation B26/B26M;the number immediately following the designation indicates the year oforiginal adoption or,in the case of revision,the year of last revision.A number in parenthe
2、ses indicates the year of last reapproval.Asuperscript epsilon()indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.This standard has been approved for use by agencies of the U.S.Department of Defense.1NOTETable 1 was updated in February 2015 to include footnotes E,F,and G.1.Scope*1.
3、1 This specification2covers aluminum-alloy sand castingsdesignated as shown in Table 1.1.2 This specification is for aluminum-alloy sand castingsused in general purpose applications.It may not address themechanical properties,integrity testing,and verification re-quired for highly loaded or safety c
4、ritical applications.1.3 Alloy and temper designations are in accordance withANSI H35.1/H35.1M.Unified Numbering System alloy des-ignations are in accordance with Practice E527.1.4 Unless the order specifies the“M”specificationdesignation,the material shall be furnished to the inch-poundunits.1.5 Fo
5、r acceptance criteria for inclusion of new aluminumand aluminum alloys and their properties in this specification,see Annex A1 and Annex A2.1.6 The values stated in either SI units or inch-pound unitsare to be regarded separately as standard.The values stated ineach system may not be exact equivalen
6、ts;therefore,eachsystem shall be used independently of the other.Combiningvalues from the two systems may result in nonconformancewith the standard.1.7 This standard does not purport to address all of thesafety concerns,if any,associated with its use.It is theresponsibility of the user of this stand
7、ard to establish appro-priate safety and health practices and determine the applica-bility of regulatory limitations prior to use.2.Referenced Documents2.1 The following documents of the issue in effect on dateof material purchase form a part of this specification to theextent referenced herein:2.2
8、ASTM Standards:3B179 Specification for Aluminum Alloys in Ingot and Mol-ten Forms for Castings from All Casting ProcessesB275 Practice for Codification of Certain Zinc,Tin and LeadDie CastingsB557 Test Methods for Tension Testing Wrought and CastAluminum-and Magnesium-Alloy ProductsB557M Test Method
9、s for Tension Testing Wrought and CastAluminum-and Magnesium-Alloy Products(Metric)B660 Practices for Packaging/Packing of Aluminum andMagnesium ProductsB881 Terminology Relating to Aluminum-and Magnesium-Alloy ProductsB985 Practice for Sampling Aluminum Ingots,Billets,Cast-ings and Finished or Semi
10、-Finished Wrought AluminumProducts for Compositional AnalysisB917/B917M Practice for Heat Treatment of Aluminum-Alloy Castings from All ProcessesD3951 Practice for Commercial PackagingE29 Practice for Using Significant Digits in Test Data toDetermine Conformance with SpecificationsE34 Test Methods f
11、or Chemical Analysis of Aluminum andAluminum-Base AlloysE94 Guide for Radiographic ExaminationE155 Reference Radiographs for Inspection of Aluminumand Magnesium CastingsE165 Practice for Liquid Penetrant Examination for GeneralIndustryE527 Practice for Numbering Metals and Alloys in theUnified Numbe
12、ring System(UNS)E607 Test Method for Atomic Emission SpectrometricAnalysis Aluminum Alloys by the Point to Plane Tech-nique Nitrogen Atmosphere(Withdrawn 2011)4E716 Practices for Sampling and Sample Preparation ofAluminum and Aluminum Alloys for Determination of1This specification is under the juris
13、diction of ASTM Committee B07 on LightMetals and Alloys and is the direct responsibility of Subcommittee B07.01 onAluminum Alloy Ingots and Castings.Current edition approved Oct.1,2014.Published October 2014.Originallyapproved in 1918.Last previous edition approved in 2012 as B26/B26M 12.DOI:10.1520
14、/B0026_B0026M-14E01.2For ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code applications see related Specifi-cation SB-26/SB-26M in Section II of that Code.3For referenced ASTM standards,visit the ASTM website,www.astm.org,orcontact ASTM Customer Service at serviceastm.org.For Annual Book of ASTMStandards volume
15、information,refer to the standards Document Summary page onthe ASTM website.4The last approved version of this historical standard is referenced onwww.astm.org.*A Summary of Changes section appears at the end of this standardCopyright ASTM International,100 Barr Harbor Drive,PO Box C700,West Conshoh
16、ocken,PA 19428-2959.United States1 Chemical Composition by Spectrochemical AnalysisE1251 Test Method for Analysis of Aluminum and Alumi-num Alloys by Spark Atomic Emission SpectrometryE2422 Digital Reference Images for Inspection of Alumi-num CastingsIEEE/ASTM SI 10 Standard for Use of the InternationalSystem of Units(SI):The Modern Metric System2.3 AMS Standard:5AMS 2771 Heat Treatment of Aluminum Alloy Castings2.4 American National Standards:6H35.1/H35.1(M)Alloy and Temper Designation System f
