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General Aluminum Standards

General Aluminum Standards cover working in working with aluminum in structural applications as well as a comprehensive guide for producers and users of aluminum. Other standards relating to alloys and more are included in this category.


AA ADM-2020

Aluminum Design Manual, 2020 Edition

The 2020 Aluminum Design Manual is essential for all professionals who work with aluminum in structural applications, this comprehensive, up-to-date resource includes the sections listed below *The Specification for Aluminum Structures, which contains new provisions for block shear, pull-out strength of screws in screw chases, weld-affected strengths, post-weld heat treated strengths, new alloy-tempers, and flanges and webs with concentrated forces *The Commentary to the Specification for Aluminum Structures, with background and references for specification provisions *A Design Guide, addressing aluminum structural design codes, aluminum composite material, adhesive bonded joints, extrusion design, corrosion, fire protection, and sustainability *Material Properties, which describes the wrought and cast alloy and temper designation systems and provides comparative characteristics, typical physical properties, and densities of common aluminum alloys *Section Properties for common aluminum channels, I-shapes, angles, tees, zees, square, rectangular, and round tube, roofing and siding, and pipe *Design Aids, including 48 allowable stress tables for common alloy-tempers, load span tables for Aluminum Association channels and I-shapes, grating (new), tread plate, and roofing and siding *Illustrative Examples, with 31 design examples of use of the Specification for Aluminum Structures *Guidelines for Aluminum Sheet Metal Work in Building Construction *A new Code of Standard Practice for Fabricating and Erecting Structural Aluminum, which provides a common understanding of acceptable standards when contracting for structural aluminum *Hard copies include a QR code with a link to a spreadsheet containing section property


AA ADM-2020

Aluminum Design Manual, 2020 Edition

The 2020 Aluminum Design Manual is essential for all professionals who work with aluminum in structural applications, this comprehensive, up-to-date resource includes the sections listed below *The Specification for Aluminum Structures, which contains new provisions for block shear, pull-out strength of screws in screw chases, weld-affected strengths, post-weld heat treated strengths, new alloy-tempers, and flanges and webs with concentrated forces *The Commentary to the Specification for Aluminum Structures, with background and references for specification provisions *A Design Guide, addressing aluminum structural design codes, aluminum composite material, adhesive bonded joints, extrusion design, corrosion, fire protection, and sustainability *Material Properties, which describes the wrought and cast alloy and temper designation systems and provides comparative characteristics, typical physical properties, and densities of common aluminum alloys *Section Properties for common aluminum channels, I-shapes, angles, tees, zees, square, rectangular, and round tube, roofing and siding, and pipe *Design Aids, including 48 allowable stress tables for common alloy-tempers, load span tables for Aluminum Association channels and I-shapes, grating (new), tread plate, and roofing and siding *Illustrative Examples, with 31 design examples of use of the Specification for Aluminum Structures *Guidelines for Aluminum Sheet Metal Work in Building Construction *A new Code of Standard Practice for Fabricating and Erecting Structural Aluminum, which provides a common understanding of acceptable standards when contracting for structural aluminum *Hard copies include a QR code with a link to a spreadsheet containing section property


AA ADM-2020

Aluminum Design Manual, 2020 Edition

The 2020 Aluminum Design Manual is essential for all professionals who work with aluminum in structural applications, this comprehensive, up-to-date resource includes the sections listed below *The Specification for Aluminum Structures, which contains new provisions for block shear, pull-out strength of screws in screw chases, weld-affected strengths, post-weld heat treated strengths, new alloy-tempers, and flanges and webs with concentrated forces *The Commentary to the Specification for Aluminum Structures, with background and references for specification provisions *A Design Guide, addressing aluminum structural design codes, aluminum composite material, adhesive bonded joints, extrusion design, corrosion, fire protection, and sustainability *Material Properties, which describes the wrought and cast alloy and temper designation systems and provides comparative characteristics, typical physical properties, and densities of common aluminum alloys *Section Properties for common aluminum channels, I-shapes, angles, tees, zees, square, rectangular, and round tube, roofing and siding, and pipe *Design Aids, including 48 allowable stress tables for common alloy-tempers, load span tables for Aluminum Association channels and I-shapes, grating (new), tread plate, and roofing and siding *Illustrative Examples, with 31 design examples of use of the Specification for Aluminum Structures *Guidelines for Aluminum Sheet Metal Work in Building Construction *A new Code of Standard Practice for Fabricating and Erecting Structural Aluminum, which provides a common understanding of acceptable standards when contracting for structural aluminum *Hard copies include a QR code with a link to a spreadsheet containing section property


AA ADM-2020

Aluminum Design Manual, 2020 Edition

The 2020 Aluminum Design Manual is essential for all professionals who work with aluminum in structural applications, this comprehensive, up-to-date resource includes the sections listed below *The Specification for Aluminum Structures, which contains new provisions for block shear, pull-out strength of screws in screw chases, weld-affected strengths, post-weld heat treated strengths, new alloy-tempers, and flanges and webs with concentrated forces *The Commentary to the Specification for Aluminum Structures, with background and references for specification provisions *A Design Guide, addressing aluminum structural design codes, aluminum composite material, adhesive bonded joints, extrusion design, corrosion, fire protection, and sustainability *Material Properties, which describes the wrought and cast alloy and temper designation systems and provides comparative characteristics, typical physical properties, and densities of common aluminum alloys *Section Properties for common aluminum channels, I-shapes, angles, tees, zees, square, rectangular, and round tube, roofing and siding, and pipe *Design Aids, including 48 allowable stress tables for common alloy-tempers, load span tables for Aluminum Association channels and I-shapes, grating (new), tread plate, and roofing and siding *Illustrative Examples, with 31 design examples of use of the Specification for Aluminum Structures *Guidelines for Aluminum Sheet Metal Work in Building Construction *A new Code of Standard Practice for Fabricating and Erecting Structural Aluminum, which provides a common understanding of acceptable standards when contracting for structural aluminum *Hard copies include a QR code with a link to a spreadsheet containing section property


ANSI H35.2-2017

American National Standard Dimensional Tolerances for Aluminum Mill Products

The 2017 edition of American National Standard Dimensional Tolerances for Aluminum Mill Products supersedes the 2013 edition. This latest revision consists of updated illustrations, removal of footnote 1, changes to the list of definitions, the addition of the definition of applicable limits, edits to the definition of mean wall thickness, editorial corrections and clarifications to table headings and footnotes.


AA ASD-2017

Aluminum Standards and Data US Customary - 2017

Aluminum Standards and Data is the oldest, most popular and most comprehensive guide for producers and users of aluminum. Sold by the Aluminum Association, this 250+ page book was created to make aluminum standards more accessible and understandable for people in the aluminum industry and those sourcing or specifying.   Changes to the 2017 version, which supersedes the previous 2013 edition include:   


Updated illustrations that are clearer, more precise and easier to understand
 
Clarified usage of non-bilateral tolerances
 
Additions to the color code list for aluminum mill products
 
Latest popular alloy additions
 
New and modified definitions
 
Latest ANSI H35.1, H35.2 and H35.4 updates

  The book is divided into three parts distinguished by their page colors: blue, yellow and white  The blue section contains information on aluminum characteristics, alloy and temper designations, mill product specifications, nominal composition , typical mechanical and physical properties, density calculation procedure, comparative characteristics and application, fabrication/ heat treatments of wrought aluminum and wrought aluminum alloy products, and quality control guidelines for testing, inspection, and identification.   The yellow section lists the terminology associated with wrought aluminum products.  The white pages cover standard limits for chemical composition, mechanical properties, physical properties and dimensional tolerances for wrought aluminum mill products; designations for clad products and chemical composition limits for aluminum mill products.


ANSI H35.1/H35.1M-2017

American National Standard Alloy and Temper Designation Systems for Aluminum

The 2017 edition of American National Standard Alloy & Temper Designation Systems for Aluminum supersedes the 2013 edition. The latest 2017 edition includes revisions to the definitions of basic H and T tempers, discontinuation of the practice of assigning experimental alloy designations, a revision to the variation requirements, revisions to footnotes 4 and 5 and clarification in section 3.2.1.


AA SUP

Understanding Aluminum Extrusion Tolerances

Explains and illustrates many aspects of the published standard tolerances for aluminum alloy extrusions, such as those contained in the association's Aluminum Standards and Data. (56 pages)


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