This part of IEC 60404 is applicable to grain-oriented and non-oriented electrical steel strip and sheet for measurement of AC magnetic properties at power frequencies.

The object of this document is to define the general principles and the technical details of the measurement of the magnetic properties of electrical steel strip and sheet by means of a single sheet tester (SST).

The single sheet tester is applicable to test specimens obtained from electrical steel strips and sheets of any grade. The AC magnetic characteristics are determined for sinusoidal induced voltages, for specified peak values of the magnetic polarization, for specific peak values of the magnetic field strength and for a specified frequency.

The measurements are made at an ambient temperature of (23±5)°C on test specimens which have first been demagnetized.

NOTE Throughout this document, the quantity "magnetic polarization" is used as defined in IEC 60050-221. In some standards of the IEC 60404 series, the quantity "magnetic flux density" was used.

In order to support the long-term reliability of the performance of this set up and to understand better the relationship between the Epstein method and the SST method, the informative Annexes B and C, respectively, have been included.