ISO 19272:2015 specifies a glow discharge optical emission spectrometric (GD-OES) method for determination of the mass fraction Carbon, Silicon, Manganese, Phosphorus, Sulfur, Chromium, Nickel, Aluminium, Titanium and Copper in low alloyed steels.

The content ranges to which the method is applicable are shown in Table 1.

Table 1 ? Content ranges

Element

Content ranges

mass fraction

%

C

0,060 to 0,35

Si

0,14 to 1,50

Mn

0,090 to 0,70

P

0,010to 0,070

S

0,005 to 0,050

Cr

0,008 to 0,65

Ni

0,050 to 0,50

Al

0,006 to 0,90

Ti

0,014 to 0,13

Cu

0,005 to 1,00