ASTM B609/B609M-12e1

ASTM B609/B609M-12e1 - 1.4.2012

1. Scope

1.1 This specification covers aluminum 1350-O (annealed), 1350-H12 or -H22 (¼ hard), 1350-H14 or -H24 (½ hard), 1350-H16 or -H26 (¾ hard) and 1350-H142 or -H242 (½ hard), suitable for stranding into conductors or for solid single conductors, either bare or insulated (see Table 1 or Table 2).

1.2 The values stated in inch-pound units or SI units are to be regarded separately as standard. The values in each system are not exact equivalents; therefore, each system shall be used independently of the other. Combining values from the two systems may result in nonconformance with the specification.

1.2.1 For density, resistivity, and temperature, the values stated in SI units are to be regarded as standard.

Note 1—Prior to 1975, aluminum 1350 was designated as EC-aluminum.

Note 2—The aluminum and temper designations conform to ANSI H35.1. Aluminum 1350 corresponds to Unified Numbering System A91350 in accordance with Practice E527.

TABLE 1 Standard Nominal Diameters, Cross-Sectional Areas, and Mass Per Unit Length of Solid Round Aluminum Wires and Conductors at 20°C AWG or cmil Sizes

Note—Metric values listed as follows represent a soft conversion and as such they may not be the same as those metric mass per unit length which are calculated from the basic metric density.
Conversion factors:
1 lb/1000 ft = 1.488 ft + 00 kg/km
1 in. = 25.4 mm

Size cmil or AWG	Diameter		Cross-Sectional Area			Mass Per Unit Length
Size cmil or AWG	mils	mm	cmil	in.²	mm²	lb/1000 ft	kg/km
500 000	707.1	17.960	500 000	0.3927	253.3	459.4	683.7
450 000	670.8	17.040	450 000	0.3534	228.0	413.5	615.3
400 000	632.5	16.070	400 000	0.3142	202.7	367.6	547.0
350 000	591.6	15.030	350 000	0.2749	177.3	321.6	478.6
300 000	547.7	13.910	300 000	0.2356	152.0	275.7	410.2
250 000	500.0	12.700	250 000	0.1963	126.7	229.7	341.8

0000	460.0	11.680	211 600	0.1662	107.2	194.4	289.3
000	409.6	10.4000	167 800	0.1318	85.01	154.2	229.4
00	364.8	9.2660	133 100	0.1045	67.43	122.3	182.0
0	324.9	8.2520	105 600	0.08291	53.49	97.00	144.3
1	289.3	7.3480	83 690	0.06573	42.41	76.91	114.4
2	257.6	6.5430	66 360	0.05212	33.62	60.98	90.73

3	229.4	5.8270	52 620	0.04133	26.67	48.36	71.96
4	204.3	5.1890	41 740	0.03278	21.15	38.35	57.07
5	181.9	4.6200	33 090	0.02599	16.77	30.40	45.24
6	162.0	4.1150	26 240	0.02061	13.30	24.12	35.88
7	144.3	3.6650	20 820	0.01635	10.55	19.13	28.47
8	128.5	3.2640	16 510	0.01297	8.67	15.17	22.58

9	114.4	2.9060	13 090	0.01028	6.631	12.03	17.89
10	101.9	2.5880	10 380	0.008455	5.261	9.542	14.20
11	90.7	2.3040	8 226	0.006461	4.168	7.559	11.25
12	80.8	2.0520	6 529	0.005128	3.308	5.999	8.927
13	72.0	1.8290	5 184	0.004072	2.627	4.764	7.088
14	64.1	1.6280	4 109	0.003227	2.082	3.776	5.618

15	57.1	1.4500	3 260	0.002561	1.652	2.996	4.458
16	50.8	1.2900	2 581	0.002027	1.308	2.371	3.529
17	45.3	1.1510	2 052	0.001612	1.040	1.886	2.806
18	40.3	1.0240	1 624	0.001276	0.8229	1.492	2.221
19	35.9	0.9119	1 289	0.001012	0.6531	1.184	1.762
20	32.0	0.8128	1 024	0.0008042	0.5189	0.9410	1.400

21	28.5	0.7239	812.2	0.0006379	0.4116	0.7464	1.111
22	25.3	0.6426	640.1	0.0005027	0.3243	0.5882	0.8752
23	22.6	0.5740	510.8	0.0004011	0.2588	0.4693	0.6984
24	20.1	0.5105	404.0	0.0003173	0.2047	0.3713	0.5542
25	17.9	0.4547	320.4	0.0002516	0.1624	0.2944	0.4381
26	15.9	0.4039	252.8	0.0001986	0.1281	0.2323	0.3457

27	14.2	0.3607	201.6	0.0001589	0.1022	0.1853	0.2757
28	12.6	0.3200	158.8	0.0001247	0.08045	0.1459	0.2171
29	11.3	0.2870	127.7	0.0001003	0.06470	0.1173	0.1746
30	10.0	0.2540	100.0	0.00007854	0.05067	0.09189	0.1367

TABLE 2 Standard Nominal Diameters, Cross-Sectional Areas, and Mass per Unit Length of Solid Round Aluminum Wires and Conductors at 20°C

Note—The data in Table 2 were extracted in part from Specification B682.

Diameter, mm	Cross-Sectional Area, mm²	Mass per Unit Length, kg/km
18.0	255.0	702.0
16.0	201.0	555.0
14.0	154.0	425.0
12.5	123.0	339.0
11.2	98.5	272.0
10.0	78.5	217.0
9.00	63.6	176.0
8.00	50.3	139.0
7.10	39.6	109.0
6.30	31.2	86.0
5.60	24.6	68.0
5.00	19.6	54.2
4.50	15.9	43.9
4.00	12.6	34.7
3.55	9.90	27.3
3.15	7.79	21.5
2.80	6.16	17.0
2.50	4.91	13.5
2.24	3.94	10.9
2.00	3.14	8.67
1.80	2.55	7.02
1.60	2.01	5.55
1.40	1.54	4.25
1.25	1.23	3.39
1.12	0.985	2.72
1.00	0.785	2.17
0.900	0.636	1.76
0.800	0.503	1.39
0.710	0.396	1.09
0.630	0.312	0.860
0.560	0.246	0.680
0.500	0.196	0.542
0.450	0.159	0.439
0.400	0.126	0.347
0.355	0.0990	0.273
0.315	0.0779	0.215
0.280	0.0616	0.170
0.250	0.0491	0.135

2. Referenced Documents

B354-23	Standard Terminology Relating to Uninsulated Metallic Electrical Conductors
B193-25	Standard Test Method for Resistivity of Electrical Conductor Materials
B233-97(2021)	Standard Specification for Aluminum 1350 Drawing Stock for Electrical Purposes
ANSI H35.1	American National Standard for Alloy and Temper Designation Systems for Aluminum
B557-15(2023)	Standard Test Methods for Tension Testing Wrought and Cast Aluminum- and Magnesium-Alloy Products
B682-01(2024)	Standard Specification for Standard Metric Sizes of Electrical Conductors
B830-18(2026)	Standard Specification for Uniform Test Methods and Frequency
ANSI H35.1[M]	American National Standard for Alloy and Temper Designation Systems for Aluminum
E527-23	Standard Practice for Numbering Metals and Alloys in the Unified Numbering System (UNS)
E29-22	Standard Practice for Using Significant Digits in Test Data to Determine Conformance with Specifications