IS 3600 : Part 4 : 1984 Method of Testing Fusion Welded Joints and Weld Metal in Steel: Part 4 Longitudinal tensile test on cylindrical weld metal test pieces on butt welds

1 Scope

Specifies sizes of test pieces and testing procedure forcarrying out longitudinal tensile test on cylindrical test piecesin order to determine one or more of the following mechanicalproperties of weld metal in a fusion welded butt joint :

a) Tensile strength,

b) Yield stress and/or stress at proof limit,

c) Percentage elongation after fracture, and

d) Percentage reduction of area.

2 References

IS 1608 : 1972 Methods fortensile testing of steel products