European foreword

This document (EN 16482:2024) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 190 “Foundry technology”, the secretariat of which is held by DIN.

This European Standard shall be given the status of a national standard, either by publication of an identical text or by endorsement, at the latest by January 2025, and conflicting national standards shall be withdrawn at the latest by January 2025.

Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights. CEN shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.

This document supersedes EN 16482:2014.

The following modifications were implemented in this new edition:

— new normative references;
— new reference to ASTM A536‑84 (2009), Standard Specification for Ductile Iron Castings in the text and Bibliography;
— modification of Table 2 “Tensile properties of continuous cast spheroidal graphite cast iron bars”, where two Grades were modified to fulfil requirements also of ASTM A536‑84 (2009):
EN-GJS-450-12C and EN GJS 550-6C;
— new Table 4 “Minimum impact energy values measured on V-notched test pieces machined from cast samples for ferritic grades of the ferritic to pearlitic group” in 7.4 (imported from EN 1563:2018);
— new Table 5 “Straightness of continuous cast bars” in 7.7;
— new 7.8 “Ultrasonic testing”;
— new Figure 1 and Table 6 “Dimensions of grey cast iron tensile test pieces”;
— new Figure 2 “Dimensions of spheroidal graphite cast iron tensile test pieces”;
— modification of Table A.1 “Guidance values for Brinell hardness”;
— modification of Table B.2 “Machining allowances for continuous cast iron bars”;
— modification of Table D.2 “Examples of mechanical properties measured on continuous cast iron bars with a diameter of 160 mm”.

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BS EN 16482:2024

Founding. Continuous cast iron bars

Current

Published:

31 Jul 2024