What is BS EN 10060 - Hot rolled round steel bars about?

BS EN 10060 is a European standard that covers the best practices for manufacturing high-quality round steel bars. BS EN 10060 specifies the nominal dimensions and the tolerances on dimensions and shape of hot rolled round steel bars.

Who is BS EN 10060 - Hot rolled round steel bars for?

BS EN 10060 on the hot rolled round steel bars is useful for:

Manufacturers of steel flat bars
Designers of steel flat bars
Metal engineers
Metal fabrication Industries
Testing labs for steel products
Regulatory authorities
Quality control personnel

Why should you use BS EN 10060 - Hot rolled round steel bars?

Hot rolled round steel bars are rolled from slabs, which are a semi-finished steel product when they are hot. Round steel bars have a massive range of applications in various industries such as automobiles, domestic appliances, shipbuilding, and construction.

BS EN 10060 provides you with guidance on specifications to check the tolerances on dimensions and shapes of hot-rolled steel products, which helps the users to understand and decide the standard thickness, width, length, straightness, etc. of round steel bars. It also covers the standard method to measure the thickness, length, width, etc. of the round bars of the products and helps users to calculate the moment of inertia.

Users of BS EN 10060 can check the tolerances of hot-rolled round steel bars which gives them proper fit and designs for spring steel products. It helps users to determine the exact room for error while manufacturing particular products for particular applications.

Thus, BS EN 10060 provides you with comprehensive information useful for designing high-quality, cost-effective hot-rolled round steel bars with negligible or no manufacturing defects.

BS EN 10060:2003

Hot rolled round steel bars for general purposes. Dimensions and tolerances on shape and dimensions

Current

Published:

1 Dec 2003