What is the difference between A-36 & SA-36?
What is the difference between A-36 & SA-36?
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Hey everyone!
Quick question: "What is the difference between A-36 and SA-36?" And are they equivalents?
Thanks in advance!
Quick question: "What is the difference between A-36 and SA-36?" And are they equivalents?
Thanks in advance!





RE: What is the difference between A-36 & SA-36?
The difference is this; for any material certified as SA, this indicates that it is endorsed by the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code for use in pressure retaining items. For A designation material, this material is supplied under ASTM certification.
Now for the actual difference between ASME SA 36 and ASTM A36, there is none. They are considered identical, for other materials this may not be the case.
RE: What is the difference between A-36 & SA-36?
RE: What is the difference between A-36 & SA-36?
In ASME IIA, you can find a chapter "Acceptable ASTM editions" (page xlvii), giving details about the allowed ASTM grades in function of the design code and the acceptable editions. Not all editions are acceptable. E.g. up to Addenda 06, ASTM A516 edition 90 was acceptable and not the more recent editions 03, 05, 06. At my experience, this assures that the used ASTM edition is 100% identical to the current ASME edition. In the ASME material standard, you always find the indication, to which edition of ASTM it is identical. But the easiest way is, as said by JStephen, to stay with ASME grades when material is used for ASME applications.
RE: What is the difference between A-36 & SA-36?
One more question: Does anyone if there's a book that lists the comparison between all the ASTM, ASME, JIS, DIN (as well as other international standards) metals and their equivalents? And if so, where I can purchase this book?
Thanks in advance!
RE: What is the difference between A-36 & SA-36?
http://www.casti.ca/
CAST Metals Black Book on European Ferrous data. There are references to metals and world standards, with a nice comparison at the end of the book. There might be a lite version of this book to download for viewing.