BSI Business Information has just published a collection of essential stainless steel standards on one CD-Rom to include all three available parts of BS EN 10088 Stainless steels
Industry uses the series to quality check the stainless steel specified to ensure products meet the high quality standards demanded by customers.
With the three standards now available together in one convenient place, steel professionals will find it easier to access the information essential to their work by using its search facility.
New BS EN 10088 Stainless steel standards CD-Rom contains:.
Part 1 lists the chemical compositions of stainless steels (including a table of European Standards, in which these stainless steels are further specified).
They are subdivided in accordance with their main properties, into corrosion resisting steels, heat resisting steels and creep resisting steels.
Part 2 specifies the technical delivery conditions for hot or cold rolled sheet/plate and strip of standard grades and special grades of corrosion resisting stainless steels for general purposes.
Also includes the use of flat stainless steel products including cutlery and other products in contact with foodstuffs.
Part 3 technical delivery conditions for semi-finished products, hot or cold formed bars, rods, wire, sections and bright products of standard and special grades of corrosion resisting stainless steels for general purposes.
Price £250 +VAT (£293.75), £125 +VAT (£146.88) BSI subscribing members.
BSI order ref BIP 3045.
ISBN 0 580 47455 0.
Coming soon: BS EN 10088 parts 4 and 5.
Parts 4 (flat products) and 5 (long products) of BS EN 10088 are now in preparation to cover material for construction purposes.
When Parts 4 and 5 become available they will be harmonised with the Construction Products Directive.
Five-part CD.
A new edition of the CD containing all five parts of BS EN 10088 will also be published when parts 4 and 5 are available.
Customers who have purchased the earlier threepart version will be able to buy the five-part CD at a discount.
