IS 191 : 2007 Copper - Specification

ICS 77.150.30 MTD 8
Reaffirmed 2021

1 Scope

1.1 This standard specifies the chemical composition and physical properties of various types of copper in the form of refinery shapes.

1.2 The refinery shapes include horizontally, verticallyand continuously cast wire bars, cakes, billets and ingots.Wire bars, cakes and billets are intended for fabricating into wrought products, ingots are intended for alloying in wrought and cast copper alloys.

2 References

The following standards contain provisions, which through refercnce in this text, constitute provision of this standard. At the time of publication,the editions indicated were valid. All standards are subject to revision and partiesto agreements based on this standard are encouraged toinvestigate the possibility of applying the most recenteditions of the standards indicated below:

      IS No.     Title
IS 440 : 1964 Methods of chemical analysis of copper
(revised)
IS 1387 : 1993 General requirements for the supply of
metallurgical materials (second revision)
3288 Glossary of terms relating to copper and
copper alloys:
IS Part 1 : 1986 Materials (third revision)
IS Part 3 : 1986 Wrought forms
IS 3635 : 1966 Methods of test for resistance of metallic
electrical resistance material