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The Pressure Vessel Plate article provides you information about the ASME
Code requirement regarding plate material and related points in the pressure
vessel inspection.
You need to take care about your Pressure Vessel Plate Materials, there are
lots of requirements and specific prohibitions in the ASME code.
Some of these requirements are ASME and Non ASME plate materials, plate
specifications, inspection requirements and material test reports. This article
describes these requirements for you.
ASME Code Sec VIII DIV 1 requires the materials that are used for pressure
containing parts to be one of:
For example, SA 283 plate material is listed in ASME Sec II, but when you
refer to subsection C in Sec VIII Div 1, you see it is not allowed to be used for
lethal substance services as well as for unfired steam boilers. Also, you
cannot use this material when you need your thickness to be greater than 5/8
inch.
For example, if you open the SA 516 material specification in ASME Section II,
material Part A, edition 2004, you will see this statement below the page title:
This means you can use A 516 Edition 1990 instead SA 516 2004.
But if your ASTM material is A 516 and not manufactured based on ASTM
Edition 1990, you cannot use this material unless you do the assessment
based on clause UG-10 in ASME Section VIII Div 1, and your assessment
result will determine either it is permissible, or you need to do more tests to
recertify this material.
For some materials, the specifications are not identical or may be identical
with some exceptions, so again we cannot use these ASTM material unless
we make an assessment based on the above mentioned clause (UG-10)
The answer is Yes, but with some conditions. These conditions ar addressed
in UG-10(a) as following items:
Example:
Melting method, practice, deoxidation and heat treatment are consistent with
SA 516 Gr.60 specification, the current available P265GH material produced
by basic oxygen process and secondary vacuum process refinement and both
normalized.
Manufacturer the first control with the required number of test specimens for
each mechanical test, as well as the size of specimens and confirm that both
standards are the same;
Then check the plate material mechanical test result for yield stress, tensile
strength and elongation and confirm all are in specific range of SA 516 Gr.60.
Manufacturer control for plate material impact test requirement and notice
impact test carried out by ISO V method and in - 53 degree F;
But SA 516 Gr.60 requires to be impact tested in -60 degree F with Charpy V-
notch test method based on SA 370 Specification so there are two conflicts
here. First is the test method, and seconder is in the test temperature.
The lab test report confirms that the P265GH plate material covers the SA 516
Gr.60 impact testing requirement.
The manufacturer purchases the P265GH plate material and changes the
marking on the plate and also rectifies the material test report with SA 516
Gr.60 material. This material identification will be SA 516 Gr.60
In the above example, a vessel manufacturer with doing extra tests recertified
a non ASME pressure vessel plate material.
In some other cases, this might not be possible even by extra testing for
example if the tensile strength is less than the ASME permitted material.
Sometimes it might be recertified even without any extra test when everything
falls in the limitation range of the ASME permitted material.
UG-93 in ASME Code Sec VIII Div 1 specifies requirements for plate material
inspection.
Based on this clause, only plate material is require to have a material test
certificate(MTR).
It means this requirement only can be applied for plate material; for other
material such as pipe and flange, MTR's are not required and marking on the
materials would be acceptable.
You need to inspect the plate material per specification of ASME Sec II Part A.
For example, for SA 516 Gr.60 refer to this specification and check the
chemical composition, mechanical property with your MTR.
You need to check that the Heat Number stated in MTR is the same stenciled
on the plate material marking and make sure this MTR belongs to this
material.
You need to check your pressure vessel plate dimensions, such as thickness,
width, length, weight as per tolerances stated in specification SA 20. Visual
inspection for surface defects also need to be done based on SA 20
specification.
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