ANSI H35.

3-2003
Reaffirmationof H35.3-2000

American National Standard

designation system
for aluminum hardeners
I Approved March 10, 2003 Secretariat: The Aluminum Association, Inc. I
1. Scope TABLE 1
Designationsfor Hardener Alloy Groups@
1.1 This standard provides a system for desig-
nating aluminum hardeners used primarily for Major Alloying Designation
Elements No.
the addition of alloying or grain refining

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elements or modifiers to aluminum alloy melts. ther Elements H20XX
H21XX
2. Alloy Designation System Q
Hardener Ti, B H22XX
2.1 This system consists of four digit Alloys H23XX
numerical designations prefixed by the letter Grouped by H24XX
H. The first two digits identify the hardener Major Added H25XX
Elements Zr, V H26XX
alloy group by major alloying element00 as Other Than Two or more elements, H27XX
shown in Table 1. The last two digits indicate AlUminU each over 9.5%
the sequential registration of hardener alloys Fe H28XX
beginning with the number H2X00 and have H29XX
no other significance. (a) Major elements other than those listed.

O Chemical composition limits and designations
conforming to this standard may be registered with
the Aluminum Association provided (a) the hardener
is offered for sale; (b) the complete chemical
composition limits are registered; (c) the
composition is significantly different from that of
any other hardeners for which a numerical
designation already has been assigned, where
"significant" is deñned as:
(i) A change of the following amounts or more in
arithmetic mean of the limits for each
individual alloving element:
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(ii) Addition or deletion of one or more alloying elements
with limits having an arithmetic mean of 0.20 percent
or more.
(iii) Change in limits for impurities for which the
difference between arithmetic means (existing and
proposed) is at least 0.10 percent.
(d) the hardener contains more aluminum than attributable
to impurity and the aluminum serves a useful function
other than qualifymg the hardener for inclusion in the
system; and (e) the hardener must be produced specifically
for and regularly used as an alloying material in the
production of aluminum and aluminum alloys.
0 For codification purposes an alloying element is any
element which is intentionally added.

0 A major element is that element other than aluminum hav-

.Minimum Arithmetic Changes
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Arithmetic Mean of
Limits for Alloying
Elements in Original Alloy
Up thru 0.30 percent
Over 0.30 thru 1.0 percent
Over 1.0 thru 2.0 percent
Over 2.0 thru 3.0 percent
Over 3.0 thru 4.0 percent
Over 4.0 thru 5.0 percent
Over 5.0 thru 6.0 percent
Over 6.0
*Lesser amounts are considered too small to issue new alloy
designation.
ing the greatest nominal concentration. Should two or more
Need for New Alloy major elements have equal nominal concentrations, that
Issuance * element appearing first in the element limit sequence shall
0.10 be used to determine designation grouping. When nominal
concentration of two or more elements are each greater
0.15
than 9.5%, such alloys are assigned to the 27XX group.
0.20
0.30 @ Standard limits for alloying elements and impurities are
0.40 arranged in the following sequence: Silicon; iron; Copper;
0.50 Manganese; Chromium; Nickel; Titanium; Boron;
0.70 Vanadium; Additional specified elements in alphabetical
1.o0 order of their chemical symbols; Other elements, Each;
Other elements, Total; Aluminum (remainder).

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