Overview
ISO 7452:2013 - Hot-rolled steel plates - Tolerances on dimensions and shape - defines dimensional and shape tolerances for hot-rolled steel plates produced on a reversing mill. The standard applies to plates with nominal thickness 3 mm ≤ t ≤ 400 mm and nominal width ≥ 600 mm. It excludes stainless steel, continuous mill products, custom-made plate, checker plate, and bulb plate for flooring or wide flats.
Key topics and technical requirements
Applications and practical value
- Ensures consistent quality and interchangeability of hot‑rolled steel plates for:
- Structural steel fabrication and construction
- Heavy fabrication, shipbuilding, pressure parts (where applicable grades are specified)
- Plate suppliers, mills and quality control laboratories enforcing dimensional acceptance criteria
- Helps purchasers and manufacturers agree unambiguous delivery requirements and inspection methods at the time of order.
- Steel mills and plate manufacturers (reversing mill production)
- Procurement teams and purchasers specifying plate tolerances
- Quality inspectors and metrology labs performing acceptance checks
- Fabricators, structural engineers and project managers integrating plate tolerances into design and fabrication planning
Related standards
- ISO 630 and ISO 9328 series (steel grade references)
- ISO 683-1, -2, -10, -11 (steels)
- ISO 6929 (steel products - vocabulary)
- Note: continuous mill flat-rolled products and steel tubes are covered by other ISO technical committees (ISO/TC 17/SC 12; ISO/TC 5/SC 1).
Keywords: ISO 7452, hot-rolled steel plates, tolerances, thickness tolerances, flatness, edge camber, out-of-squareness, reversing mill.