iy Designation: A 185 - 94 Standard Specification for Steel Welded Wire Fabric, Plain, for Concrete Reinforcement’ “This standard is issued unde the fed designation A 185; the number ined fllowing the designation indicates the year of| tiginal adoption rin the cse of revision the year of revision, A number in pretheesndktes the ea fat eappeoa A ‘Soper epson (indicts an etal change ce te lst revision oe reaporova. This standard hasbeen approved for use by agencies ofthe Deparment of Defnce Consult the DoD Inde of Speciation and Standards forthe spect ear of ve hich hs eon adoped bythe Deparment of Deense 1. Scope 1 This specification covers welded wire fabric to be used. for the reinforcement of concrete. 1.2 The values stated in inch-pound units are to be regarded as the standard. The values given in parentheses are for information only. 2. Referenced Documents 2.1 ASTM Standards: A82 Specification for Steel Wire, Plain, for Concrete Reinforcement 4700 Practices for Packaging, Marking, and Loading Methods for Steel Products for Domestic Shipment? 2.2 Military Standards: MIL-STD-i29 Marking for Shipment and Storage MIL-STD-163 Steel Mill Products Preparation for Ship- ment and Storage* 2.3. Federal Standard: Fed. Std. No. 123 Marking for Shipments (Civil Agencies)* 3. Terminology 3.1 Descriptions of Terms Specific to This Standard: 3.L.1 convoluied wire—when wire for welded fabric is formed into a sinusoidal wave shape, it is commonly referred to as convoluted wire. The wire is used in the manufacture of ‘cages for certain applications of concrete, pipe reinforcing. 3.1.2 welded wire fabric—as used within the scope and intent of this specification, designates a material composed of cold-drawn steel wire, as-drawn or galvanized, fabricated into sheets or rolls by the process of electric resistance ‘welding. The finished material shall consist essentially of a series of longitudinal and transverse wires arranged substa tially at right angles to each other, and welded together at points of intersection. 4. Ordering Information 4.1 Orders for material to this specification should include the following information: 4.1.1 Quantity (weight or square area), 4.1.2 Name of material (welded wire fabric for concrete reinforcement), "This peifcations uncer the jrsicion of ASTM Comite Aon Stiles Stel, and Relate Aloe and she det responsi of Subcom [ADLAS on Stel Reinforcement. CGrsent edition approved Apel 15, 1994. Published July 1994, Oriinaly published as 185 ~ 6. Last previous edition A185 90s 2 anal Book of STA Standard, Vol 0104 3 annual Book of ASTH Standards, Vol 01.08. + avalable fom Standardization Documents, Order Desk, Bl. 4, Seton D, 700 Robins Ave, Philadephia, Pa 191113098 134 4.1.3 Wire spacings and sizes, 4.1.4 Minimum yield strength if Supplement SI of Speci- fication A 82 applies. 4.1.5 Exclusion of oversteeling, if required (see 9.4.2), 4.1.6 Length and width of sheets or rolls, 4.1.7 Packaging (see Section 16), and 4.1.8 ASTM designation and year of issue. Nore IA typical ondering description is as follows: 10-000 welded wiee fabric for concrete reinforcement, 4 3 12-W15 x W6 in fat Sheets 96 in. wide by 240 in, lon, in secured is, to ASTM A 5. Materials 5.1 The wire used in the manufacture of welded wire fabrics shall conform to Specification A 82 and its Supple- ment SI if so ordered. 5.2 Welded wire fabric shall be furnished either in fat sheets, or in rolls, as specified by the purchaser. 6. Manufacture 6.1 The wires shall be assembled by automatic machines or by other suitable mechanical means which will assure accurate spacing and alignment of all members of the finished fabric. 62 Longitudinal and transverse members shall be se- curely connected at every intersection by a process of electrical-resistance welding which employs the principle of fusion combined with pressure 63 Wire of proper grade and quality when fabricated in the manner herein required shall result in a strong, service- able mesh-type product having substantially square or rec- angular openings. It shall be fabricated and finished in a workmanlike manner, shall be free from injurious defects, and shall conform to this specification. Nore 2—A variation of manufacturing includes the application of| one of more longitudinal convoluted wires at one dee of fabric for concrete pipe reinforcing cages. This shape allows the cage ends to be ‘expanded oa lager diameter to accommodate the bilshaped ends of oncret pipe 7. Mechanical Property Requirements 7.1 Tensile—Wire for the production of welded wire fabric is described in Specification A 82. Tensile tests may be made on wire cut from the welded wire fabric and tested either across or between the welds; no less than 50 % shall be across welds. Tensile tests across a weld shall have the welded joint located approximately at the center of the wire being tested and the cross wire forming the welded joint shall extend approximately 1 in. (25 mm) beyond each side of the welded joint.Note 3—Tensie, reduction of area, and bend testing are normally done atthe time the wire is draw, The manufacturer’ finished product ‘till must satsy the mechanical properties when tested afer fabrication, 7.2 Reduction of Area—The ruptured section of the tensile specimen is measured to determine this property. In the case of a specimen which has been tested across a weld, the measurement shall be made only when rupture has occurred at a sufficient distance from the center of a weld to Permit an accurate measurement of the fractured section. ‘The wire shall meet the minimum reduction of area require. ments of Specification A 82. 1.3, Bend Test—The wire shall withstand the bend test as described in Specification A 82 and shall be performed on a specimen taken from between the welds. 7.4 Weld Shear Strength—The weld shear strength be- tween longitudinal and transverse wires shall be tested as described in Section 8. The minimum average shear value in ounds-force shall not be less than 35 000, multiplied by the nominal area of the larger wire in square inches (or in Newtons, shall not be less than 241, multiplied by the nominal area in square millimetres), where the smaller wire is not less than size W1.? and has an area of 40 % or more of the area of the larger wire. Typical examples of the 40 % or ‘more wire size differential area as follows: Lager Smale Size No, W20 Size No, wa Sueno WIS, Soe No, We S2eNe Wid Ske No, Wa 7.4.1 Fabric having a relationship of longitudinal and ‘transverse wires other than those covered in 7.4 shall not be subject to the weld shear requirement. 7.4.2 Weld-shear tests for determination of conformance to the requirements of 7.4 shall be conducted using a fixture as described in Section 8, 7.4.3 Four welds selected at random from the specimen escribed in 11.2 shall be tested for weld shear strength. The transverse wire of each test specimen shall extend approxi- mately 1 in. (25 mm) on each side of the longitudinal wire ‘The longitudinal wire of each test specimen shall be of such length below the transverse wire so as to be adequately engaged by the grips of the testing machine. It shall be of such length above the transverse wire that its end shall be above the center line of the upper bearing of the testing device. 7.44 The material shall be deemed to conform to’ the requirements for weld shear strength if the average of the four samples complies with the value stipulated in 7.4. Ifthe Average fails to meet the prescribed value, all the welds across the specimen shall then be tested. The fabric will be acceptable if the average of all weld shear test values across the specimen meets the prescribed minimum value. 8. Weld Shear Test Apparatus and Methods 8.1 As the welds in welded wire fabric contribute to the bonding and anchorage value of the wires in concrete, itis imperative that the weld acceptance tests be made in'a jig that will stress the weld in a manner similar to which it is. Stressed in concrete. In order to accomplish this the vertical Write in the jig must be stressed in an axis close to its center line, Also the horizontal wire must be held closely to the = 135 ba 185 vertical wire, and in the same relative position, so as to brevent rotation of the horizontal wire. When the fabric is designed with different wire sizes, the larger diameter wire is the “vertical wire” when tested (see Fig. 1°). 8.2 Figure 1 shows the details of a typical testing jig together with two anvils which make it possible to test welds for wire up to % in. (15.88 mm) in diameter. This testing jig can be used in most tension testing machines and should be ‘hung in a ball and socket arrangement at the center of the ‘machine. This, or a similarly effective fixture designed on the same principle, is acceptable. 8.3 Test specimens should be inserted through the notch in the anvil using the smiallest notch available in which the vertical wire will fit loosely. The vertical wire shall be in contact with the surface of the free rotating rollers while the horizontal wire shall be supported by the anvil on each side of the slot. The bottom jaws of the testing machine shall grip the lower end of the vertical wire and the load shall be applied at a rate of stressing not to exceed 100 000 psi/min (689 MPa/min). 9. Dimensions, Ms 9.1 Width—The width of fabric shall be considered to be the center-to-center distance between outside longitudinal ‘wires. The permissible variation shall not exceed Yin. (13. mm) greater or less than the specified width. In case the width of flat sheets or rolls is specified as the overall width (tip-to-tip length of cross wires), the width shall not vary ‘more than =! in. (2:25 mm) from the specified width, 9.2 Length—The overall length of flat sheets, measured on any wite, may vary + in. (25 mm), or | %, whichever is areater 9.3 Overhang of the transverse wires shall not project, beyond the centerline of each longitudinal edge wire more than a distance of I in. (25 mm), unless otherwise specified. When transverse wires are specified to project a specific length beyond the center line of a longitudinal edge wire, the permissible variation shall not exceed ¥ in. (13 mm) greater or less than the specified length. 9.4 ‘The permissible variation in diameter of any wire in the finished fabric shall conform to the tolerances prescribed for the wire before fabrication, in Specification A 82, with the following exceptions: 9.4.1 Because of the mechanical characteristics of fabri- cating welded wire fabric, the out-ofround requirements shall not apply. 9.4.2 Unless otherwise precluded by the purchaser, the ‘manufacturer will be permitted to apply over-sized wire (not under-sized). The size differential shall not exceed one “W" size increment on sizes W8 and smaller, and two “W" size increments on sizes larger than W8. A “W" size increment is ‘whole number increment, for example, WS to W6, or W5.4 to W64, etc. In all cases where such over-steeling is practiced, the producer shall idemtfy the fabric with the style originally ordered. 9.5 The average spacing of wires shall be such that the total number of wires contained in a sheet or rol is equal to A etal drawing showing complete simensions ofthe testing i may be ‘band from ASTM Headguarets Order Adjunt No 2 10185000,