National foreword

This British Standard is the official English language version of EN 10163‑2:2004. It supersedes BS EN 10163‑2:1991 which is withdrawn.

The UK participation in its preparation was entrusted to Technical Committee ISE/12, Structural steels, which has the responsibility to:

aid enquirers to understand the text;
present to the responsible international/European committee any enquiries on the interpretation, or proposals for change, and keep the UK interests informed;
monitor related international and European developments and promulgate them in the UK.

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Summary of pages

This document comprises a front cover, an inside front cover, the EN title page, pages 2 to 10, an inside back cover and a back cover.

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This British Standard was published under the authority of the Standards Policy and Strategy Committee on 16 December 2004

This European Standard was approved by CEN on 4 November 2004.

CEN members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration. Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references concerning such national standards may be obtained on application to the Central Secretariat or to any CEN member.

This European Standard exists in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other language made by translation under the responsibility of a CEN member into its own language and notified to the Central Secretariat has the same status as the official versions.

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Foreword

This document (EN 10163‑2:2004) has been prepared by Technical Committee ECISS/TC 10 “Structural steels - Grades and qualities”, the secretariat of which is held by NEN.

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of an identical text or by endorsement, at the latest by June 2005, and conflicting national standards shall be withdrawn at the latest by June 2005.

This document supersedes EN 10163‑2:1991, Delivery requirements for surface condition of hot-rolled steel plates, wide flats and sections - Part 2: Plates and wide flats.

This series of standards consists of the following parts, under the general title Delivery requirements for surface condition of hot-rolled steel plates, wide flats and sections:

Part 1: General requirements
Part 3: Sections.

During the 5 year review of EN 10163‑2:1991 the members of ECISS/TC 10 agreed to revise EN 10163‑2:1991. It was asked to bring the text in line with ECISS DOCS N 809 “Iron and steel standardization - Model for a product standard”. Also the range of dimensions from EN 10025‑2, which is increased from 250 mm to 400 mm is incorporated in this new edition.

According to the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations, the national standards organizations of the following countries are bound to implement this European Standard: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom.

1 Scope

In addition to EN 10163‑1 this document specifies the delivery requirements which apply to the surface condition of hot-rolled plates and surface condition of the faces of wide flats with thicknesses of 3 mm ≤ t ≤ 400 mm.

NOTE For plates with a thickness > 400 mm special agreements should be made at the time of the order.

2 Normative references

3 Terms and definitions

4 General

5 Classification

6 Requirements

6.1 Depth and affected area of discontinuities

6.2 Repair requirements

6.3 Repair procedures

BS EN 10163-2:2004

Delivery requirements for surface condition of hot-rolled steel plates, wide flats and sections - Plate and wide flats

Current

Published:

16 Dec 2004