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GB/T 46590-2025Metallic materials - Method of wide plate tensile test (English PDF)

金属材料　宽板拉伸试验方法

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SAMR; SAC

Level / Type

National · Recommended

Issue date

October 31, 2025

Implementation date

May 1, 2026

Scope

GB/T 46590-2025 is the English-translated version of 金属材料　宽板拉伸试验方法.

GB/T 46590-2025 is the Chinese standard "Metallic materials - Method of wide plate tensile test". Its scope clause reads: This document specifies the principles, specimens, testing equipment, testing procedures, and test reports for tensile testing of wide plates of metallic materials.

This document applies to the determination of uniaxial tensile properties of wide plate tensile specimens of metal sheets or tubes, and is also applicable to the above-mentioned specimens containing specific defects.

The deformation and fracture properties of the sample were determined. Its clauses include terms and definitions; symbols and explanations.

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National Standard of the People's Republic of China

ICS: 77.040.10
Classification: H 22

Issued by: State Administration for Market Regulation; Standardization Administration of the PRC

Preface
1.Scope
2 Normative References
3.Terms and Definitions
4.Symbols and Explanations
5.Principle
6 Sample
7.Test equipment
8.Test Procedure
9 Test Report
Appendix A (Informative) Table 13 for Recording Data of Tensile Tests on Wide Plates
Appendix B (Informative) Post-Experiment Sample Analysis
References

1 Scope

This document specifies the principles, specimens, testing equipment, testing procedures, and test reports for tensile testing of wide plates of metallic materials.

The deformation and fracture properties of the sample were determined.

2 Normative references

The contents of the following documents, through normative references within the text, constitute essential provisions of this document. Dated citations are not included.

For references to documents, only the version corresponding to that date applies to this document; for undated references, the latest version (including all amendments) applies.

This document.

GB/T 228.1 Metallic materials - Tensile testing - Part 1.Test method at room temperature

GB/T 12160 Calibration of extensometer systems for uniaxial testing of metallic materials

GB/T 16825.1 Inspection and calibration of static uniaxial testing machines for metallic materials - Part 1.Measurement of tensile and/or compressive stresses by these machines

Inspection and calibration of force systems

GB/T 21143 Unified Test Method for Quasi-Static Fracture Toughness of Metallic Materials

GB/T 28896 Test Method for Determination of Quasi-Static Fracture Toughness of Welded Joints of Metallic Materials

GB/T 38719 Hydraulic bulging test method for determining biaxial stress-strain curves of metallic tubes

JJG139 Verification Procedure for Tensile, Compression and Universal Testing Machines

JJG762 Extensometer Verification Procedure

3 Terms and Definitions

The terms and definitions defined in GB/T 228.1, GB/T 21143, GB/T 28896, and GB/T 38719, as well as the following terms and definitions, apply to this document.

3.1

A plate-shaped tensile specimen with a width-to-thickness ratio greater than or equal to 5 and a gauge length width greater than or equal to 300 mm.

3.2

A wide plate tensile specimen with a certain width (including the circumferential weld joint) cut along a flat plate.

Note. Abbreviated as "planar specimen".

3.3

A wide plate tensile specimen with a certain circumferential width (including the circumferential weld joint) cut along the axial direction of the pipe.

Note. Abbreviated as "arc surface specimen".

4 Symbols and Explanations

The symbols and their corresponding explanations used in this document are shown in Table 1.

GB/T 46591.1 | GB/T 44030 | GB/T 43115 | GB/T 46592 | […]

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