IS 277 : 2018
Galvanized steel strips and sheets (Plain And Corrugated) - Specification (Seventh Revision)
Current edition: 2018
BIS department: MTD
What this standard covers
This standard covers the requirements of plain galvanized steel sheets and strips (coils) and corrugated galvanized sheets. 1.2 Galvanized steel sheets covered by this standard are intended to be used for purposes such as paneling, roofing, applications requiring lock forming, etc. 1.3 Requirements of galvannealed and electrogalvanized steels are not covered in this standard. 1.4 The...
Scope, quoted from IS 277 : 2018. Read the full standard
Requirements and tests, as the standard names them
- 8.1 Tensile Test
- 8.2 Bend Test
- 8.3 Requirements
- 10.1 Test Samples
- 10.2 Determination of Mass of Zinc Coating
- 14.1 Sizes of Plain Sheets
- 14.2 Tolerance
- 14.2.1 Length
- 14.2.3 Width
- 14.2.4 Thickness
- 14.2.5 Tolerance on Mass
- 15.1 Sizes of Corrugated Sheets
- 15.1.2 Depth and Pitch of the Corrugations
- 15.1.3 Number of Corrugations
- 15.2 Tolerances
Sub-clause names as printed under the headings “MECHANICAL TESTING”, “COATING TEST”, “DIMENSIONS AND TOLERANCES OF PLAIN SHEETS/COILS”, “DIMENSIONS AND TOLERANCES OF CORRUGATED SHEETS” in IS 277 : 2018. Values and limits are deliberately not reproduced here — read them in the standard itself.
How the standard is organised
- 4 SUPPLY OF MATERIAL
- 5 MANUFACTURE
- 6 MECHANICAL PROPERTIES
- 7 ZINC COATING
- 8 MECHANICAL TESTING
- 9 COATING SURFACE FINISH CLASSES AND DESIGNATION
- 10 COATING TEST
- 11 RETESTS
- 12 FREEDOM FROM DEFECTS
- 13 MASS
- 14 DIMENSIONS AND TOLERANCES OF PLAIN SHEETS/COILS
- 15 DIMENSIONS AND TOLERANCES OF CORRUGATED SHEETS
- 16 STORAGE AND TRANSPORTATION
Test methods it refers to
- IS 228
Edition history (per the BIS registry)
- IS 277 : 2018 — current edition
Where this standard is used on NirmanDost
CPWD DSR 2021 (Civil Works)
| Item code | Description (verbatim) |
|---|---|
| 12.50 | Providing and fixing precoated galvanised iron profile sheets (size, shape and pitch of corrugation as approved by Engineer-in-charge) 0.50 mm (+ 0.05 %) total coated thickness with zinc coating 120 grams per sqm as per … |
| 26.62 | Designing, Providing, installing and fixing factory finished customed design pregalvanized high tensile steel joists manufactured from G350 Z275 confirming to IS:277-1992, minimum coating of galvanizing 275 gm/sqm, minim… |
| 26.65 | Providing and fixing roofing consist of 0.8 mm thick galvanized steel deck sheet confirming to IS 277:1992 used as permanent shuttering over which MS wire mesh 3mm laid at 100x100 mm grid including edge trim covered with… |
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