AA: Aluminum Association
AA, the Aluminum Association, is a nonprofit organization based in Arlington, Virginia. It is a trade association for the aluminum production, fabrication, and recycling industries, as well as their suppliers. AA publishes global standards, industry statistics, and expert knowledge to companies and policy makers. AA standards describe the composition, mechanical properties, and nomenclature of aluminum alloys in the United States. The association was created in 1933, when 13 aluminum companies met to set up codes for aluminum manufacturers, and currently holds 16 employees. The seven ANSI H35 standards the Aluminum Association develops are approved by ANSI Accredited Standards Committee H35. Standards from AA are available both individually, directly through the ANSI webstore, and as part of a Standards Subscription. If you or your organization are interested in easy, managed, online access to standards that can be shared, a Standards Subscription may be what you need - please contact us at: [email protected] or 1-212-642-4980 or Request Proposal Price.
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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 ADM
Aluminum Design Manual
The 2015 Aluminum Design Manual is essential for all professionals who work with aluminum in structural applications, this comprehensive, up-to-date resource includes: Specification for Aluminum Structures: (US units) The 2015 Specification for Aluminum Structures is the first unified allowable strength design and load and resistance factor design aluminum Specification. It provides rules for determining the strength of aluminum structural components and minimum strengths for wrought, cast, and welded aluminum alloys and aluminum fasteners; Commentary: (US units) discusses the provisions in the Specification for Aluminum Structures and provides references; Design Guide: ( US units) addresses structural design issues not included in the Specification for Aluminum Structures, including diaphragms, adhesive bonded joints, aluminum composite material, extrusion design, corrosion prevention, fire protection, sustainability, and design references for aluminum structural components in automobiles, bridges, rail cars, ships, pressure vessels, pipe, and storage tanks; Material Properties: (US and SI units) includes alloy and temper designation systems for wrought and cast aluminum alloys; comparative characteristics of wrought alloys; foreign alloy designations correlated with US alloy designations; and typical mechanical and physical properties, including thermal expansion, electrical conductivity, and density ; Section Properties: (US units) lists dimensions and section properties for aluminum channels, I-beams, angles, tees, zees, square and rectangular tube, round tube, pipe, and roofing and siding, as well as sheet metal and wire gauges; Design Aids: (US units) provides buckling constants, allowable stress tables for various alloys, allowable load tables for channels and I-beams in bending, tread plate, roofing and siding; fastener strengths, minimum bend radii for aluminum sheet and plate, wire, and rod, design stresses for groove and fillet welds, and beam formulas; Illustrative Design Examples: (US units) includes structural design calculation examples based on the Specification for Aluminum Structures; The Aluminum Design Manual can be ordered in printed form or as a downloadable pdf file. Errata pages are available on the standards department page of The Aluminum Association website ISBN: 9780986363108
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 ANSIH35.2
ANSI H35.2-2013 Aluminum Mill Products
The 2013 edition of American National Standard Dimensional Tolerances for Aluminum Mill Products supersedes the 2009 edition. This latest revision consists of modification to the column heading for extruded and drawn pipe to harmonize with ANSI/ASME standard; clarification on tolerance calculation for wall thickness (eccentricity) of extruded tube; and clarifications to table headings and footnotes.
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 SPC-2021
Aluminum Standards for Sand and Permanent Mold Casting
This manual provides guidelines covering chemical compositions and physical and mechanical properties; it is divided into two sections * ENGINEERING SERIES (E), which establishes metrics for the various tolerances, precisions, allowances and finishes applicable to unmachined cast aluminum products, and * METALLURGICAL SERIES (M), which delves into the properties of the various aluminum alloys and tempers frequently used in casting, and the metallurgical requirements to cast products of desired quality. This latest edition improves upon the multitude of tolerances specified within the Engineering Series by providing examples for tolerance calculation, along with the addition of precision flatness tolerances for sand molds. The discontinuity level requirements specified in the Aluminum Casting Quality Standard has been updated. The edition also comprehensively builds upon the properties of Aluminum alloys relevant to casting today, including the addition of popular cast alloys such as A206. The publication includes the following standards: AA-CS-E1-92, AA-CS-E2-92, AA-CS-E3-92, AA-CS-E4-92, AA-CS-E5-92, AA-CS-E6-2000, AA-CS-E7-2000, AA-CS-E8-92, AA-CS-E9-92, AA-CS-E10-2000, AA-CS-E11-92, AA-CS-E12-92, AA-CS-E13-92, AA-CS-E14-92, AA-CS-E15-92, AA-CS-E16-2000, AA-CS-E18-92, AA-CS-E19-92, ,AA-CS-E20-92, AA-CS-E21-74, AA-CS-M1-85, AA-CS-M2-84, AA-CS-M3-2000, AA-CS-M4-84, AA-CS-M5-92, AA-CS-M5-85, AA-CS-M6-85, AA-CS-M7-85, AA-CS-M8-85, AA-CS-M9-74, AA-CS-M10-84 ,AA-CS-M11-85
AA SPC-08
Standards - Sand & Permanent Mold Casting
This manual gives voluntary guidelines covering chemical compositions and physical and mechanical properties. Also covered are linear tolerances, draft requirements, machine-finish allowances, quality control and heat treatments. Provides engineering and metallurgical standards for users and producers, and coordinates American National Standards for casting and facilitates casting alloy, ingot and temper registration. Now with metric as well as U.S. units of measurement. (57 pages) Includes the following Standards: AA-CS-E1-92, AA-CS-E2-92, AA-CS-E3-92, AA-CS-E4-92, AA-CS-E5-92, AA-CS-E6-2000, AA-CS-E7-2000, AA-CS-E8-92, AA-CS-E9-92, AA-CS-E10-2000, AA-CS-E11-92, AA-CS-E12-92, AA-CS-E13-92, AA-CS-E14-92, AA-CS-E15-92, AA-CS-E16-2000, AA-CS-E18-92, AA-CS-E19-92, ,AA-CS-E20-92, AA-CS-E21-74, AA-CS-M1-85, AA-CS-M2-84, AA-CS-M3-2000, AA-CS-M4-84, AA-CS-M5-92, AA-CS-M5-85, AA-CS-M6-85, AA-CS-M7-85, AA-CS-M8-85, AA-CS-M9-74, AA-CS-M10-84 ,AA-CS-M11-85
AA AFM-04
Aluminum Foil Manual
A comprehensive guide to the history, production, and application of aluminum foil.
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
AA ASDM-2017
Aluminum Standards & Data, 2013 Metric Book
ASD Overview: The 2013 edition of Aluminum Standards and Data is a revision to 2009 edition. This indispensable reference consists of three main parts; blue pages, yellow pages and white pages as follows: The first three sections of the blue pages contain 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; The fourth section of blue pages describes quality control and guidelines for testing, inspection, and identification; The fifth section (yellow pages) lists the terminology associated with wrought aluminum products; The first section of white pages covers standard limits for chemical composition, mechanical properties, physical properties and dimensional tolerances for wrought aluminum mill products; Designations for clad products; chemical composition limits and; The remaining nine sections (white pages) consist of standards for chemical composition, limits, mechanical property limits, dimensional tolerances, and other data classified by product form. The tolerances are those included in the ANSI H35.2 Standard Tolerances for Aluminum Mill Products. In addition, the latest 2013 edition of American National Standards Alloy and Temper Designation for Aluminum, ANSI H35.1/H35.1M, is reprinted in the blue section of this document.
