scope:

This document specifies product characteristic, test/assessment method and the way of expressing test results, for stainless steel as defined in EN 10088-1 and designated as in EN 10088-1 for the use of the reinforcement of concrete.

It applies to stainless steel products with ribbed or indented surfaces, which are in the form of:

- bars and coils (rod, wire);

- sheets of factory-made machine-welded fabric;

- lattice girders and hybrid lattice girders composed by stainless steel and by weldable reinforcing steel according to EN 10080.

This document does not apply to:

- pre-stressed stainless steels;

- indented strip;

- stainless steel tube filled with carbon steel swarf, which is then hot or cold reduced;

- stainless steel smooth bar with weld material deposited on it;

- galvanized reinforcing steel;

- epoxy-coated reinforcing steel.