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Home The ASME Impact Test Requirement article provides

you with information about impact test requirements in Custom
pressure vessel design and construction.
GENERAL
Let's say, you have a pressure vessel under design,
Pre-Shipment process and construction has not started yet. Site Sponsors
Inspection
Based on the ASME impact test requirement, you need
Third Party Inspection
to make assessment to see that either your pressure
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Commodity Inspection vessel is exempted from impact testing, or you need to

carry out the test.
Inspection and Test
Plan There are 4 steps for impact test exemption
Factory Acceptance
assessment. You need to know these steps. You might
Test be exempted in the first, second or third steps and might
not be exempted even in step 4.
Industrial Inspection
So if you are in step 4 and you have not exempted, then
Quality Control
you need to carry out the test. I will explain the process
Plant Inspection for exemption in this article.
Coating Inspection
Basic Concept:
You may know carbon steels and low alloy steels exhibit
FIX EQUIPMENT a drastic change in their room temperature ductility at
sub-zero service temperatures. Different types of
Pressure Vessel
materials exhibit different types of transition behavior.
Heat Exchanger
We can see there is a sudden, phenomenal drop in their
Piping System notch-toughness properties below the "transition" range
of temperature, which should be a matter of concern for
Industrial Valve
us.
Steam Boiler
Body centered cubic or Ferritic alloys exhibit a
Storage Tank
significant transition in behavior when impact tested
Process Heater over a range of temperatures. Above transition
temperature range, impact specimens fracture in a
"ductile" manner, absorbing relatively large amounts of
energy.
ROTARY At lower
temperatures, i.e.
EQUIPMENT
below the transition
temperature range,
Centrifugal Pump
the impact test
Centrifugal specimens are
Compressor found to fracture in
a brittle (cleavage)
Reciprocating
manner, absorbing
Compressor
less energy.
Gas Turbine
And within the transition temperature range, the fracture
Steam Turbine
is a mixture of ductile and brittle nature.
Fan & Blower
A material would be invulnerable to a sudden drop in
notch-toughness at the lowest specified service (or
E&I design) temperature, if it is proved by conducting
Charpy V-notch Impact tests on representative test
EQUIPMENT
samples, at reference (the lowest service) temperature.
Electric Generator
Grain refined carbon steel forgings and wrought
Electric Motor materials (thoroughly worked and normalized) generally
exhibit good notch toughness.
Power Transformer
Control Panel ASME Code Section VIII Div 1 exemption rules for
ASME Impact Test Requirement:
Switchgear
Power Cable There are specific rules in ASME Code for exemption
from ASME Impact Test Requirement. This test is very
GET IN TOUCH expensive, so pressure vessel manufacturers are trying

to be exempted for this costly test.
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You need to follow the following clauses to make
Contact exemption assessment for ASME impact test
Services requirement:
Blog UG-20(f) →→→UCS-66(a) →→→ UCS-66(b)

→→→UCS-68(c)
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First you have to keep your pressure vessel design data

available and then refer to UG-20 (f). If you are
We will be updating and exempted from this clause, you do not need proceed
growing this site with more
further.
and more of industrial
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But if you are not exempted by UG-20 (f), you have to
Please subscribe to my proceed to UCS-66(a), but again if you are exempted,
monthly newsletter so you there is no need for more assessment.
don't miss a thing.
But if not, you have to proceed to UCS-66(b). If you are
exempted now, there is no need for more assessment;
Email otherwise, you have to proceed to UCS-68(c), and
again if you are still not exempted, you have to carry out
impact testing.
For some cases, You might be exempted from the

Enter Your
ASME impact test requirement in the first stage in UG-
First Name 20 (f). In others, You might be exempted in UCS-66(a)
(optional)
or UCS-66(b) or UCS-68(c). If you are not exempted,

you must prepare yourself for doing this costly test.
I am at least This test would be more costly out of the US because of

Laboratory Accreditation requirements. Also, there are
16 years of
fewer accredited labs in Europe and the Middle East,
age. and their price is high as well.
UG-20(f)
I have read
and accept We will start with UG-20(f) for the ASME impact test
the privacy requirement. If your MOC (Material of Construction) is
categorized in P-No. 1 or 2 (Refer to ASME Code
policy. Section IX for P-No Definition) and your MOC thickness
has the limited value defined in this clause, then you
I might be exempted from impact testing.
understand But you need to refer to Fig UCS-66 in ASME Code

that you will Section VIII Div 1 and see in which A, B, C or D curves
your MOC is listed. All ASME carbon steel and low alloy
use my steel material is distributed in these 4 groups (Curves)
information to of materials.
send me a You need to know that the materials listed in curve D

newsletter. have the best toughness property, better than the
materials listed in curve C. Similarly materials listed in
curve C have better toughness properties compared to
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materials listed in curve B and materials listed in Curve
B have better toughness than materials listed in Curve A

.
See Following Fig UCS-66(a):
When you determine your MOC curve, then you have to

review UG-20(f) and look for the possibility of exemption
from the ASME impact test requirement. There are
some other conditions in this clause, which you should
consider for exemption.
For instance, the vessel should be hydrostatically tested

after completion, and the thermal and mechanical
loading can not be a design controlling factor.
For example, if your MOC is a normalized SA 516 Gr.70

with 0.75 inch thickness you will be exempted from
ASME impact test requirement.
Your thickness, in this example, is 0.75 of an inch, and

is listed in curve D which is up to 1 inch, you are
exempted by this clause. Of course, you will be carry
out hydro-static test and ensure that the mentioned
loadings are not a design controlling factor in your
considered pressure vessel.
UCS-66(a)
So assume that in the above example, your MOC

thickness is 1.125 inch instead of 1 inch, you will not be
exempted by UG-20(f) and you have to refer to UCS-
66(a);
But for assessment, based on this clause, you need to

know your pressure vessel MDMT (Minimum Design
Metal Temperature). Assume that is -20 degree F, so
you should now go to Fig. UCS-66 and locate 1.125
inch in the horizontal axis and draw a vertical line.
In a similar way, locate -20 degree F in the vertical axes

and draw a horizontal line. These two lines will cross
each other.
See above Figure, the lines are identified in red.
If the cross point falls above the curve D (because your

MOC is listed in curve D) you are exempted. Otherwise
you are not, but for the current example, you are above
the curve D so you are exempted from impact testing.
To simplify your assessment for the ASME impact test

requirement, the Fig-66 has been converted to the
table(table UCS-66). For any MOC with specific
thickness you can go to this table and see what is the
minimum permissible temperature without impact
testing.
See following UCS-66(a) Table:
In the above example (normalized SA 516 Gr.70, Curve

D, 1.125 inch thickness), the minimum permissible
temperature without impact test is -26 degree F. This
means that, if in the above example your MDMT
changes from -20 degree F to -27 degree F, then you
cannot be exempted from the ASME impact test
requirement by UCS-66(a), and you have to proceed to
UCS-66(b)
UCS-66(b)
Let us explain this clause with the above example. Your

MDMT from above is -27 degree F, nominal thickness is
1.125 inch, normalized SA 516 Gr.70 listed in curve D
and you are not exempted by UCS-66(a)
So you are here to continue your assessment to find a

chance for exemption. You have to refer to Fig UCS-
66.1 and calculate the following formula:
Ratio= tr E / (tn –c)
tr is the required design thickness for all applicable

loading. We assume for the above example that is 0.95
inch. E is your joint efficiency, and we assume for this
vessel it is 1. This means your vessel is RT2, tn is your
nominal thinness, which in the example from above it is
1.125 inches, and C is corrosion allowance, and we
assume it is 0.125 inches; so let calculate:
Ratio = 0.95x1/(1.125 – 0.125) Ratio= 0.95
See following Fig UCS-66(b):
Then go to the Figure UCS-66(b) and in the vertical

axes locate Ratio and draw a horizontal line. Then
locate the cross point with the graph and draw a vertical
line to cross the horizontal axis.
You will be able to reach a value of 8 in the horizontal

axes. This 8, is your 8 degree F bonus from table UCS-
66, which you can reduce by 8 degrees F minimum
permissible temperature in table without impact testing.
In the above example, your MDMT is -27 degree F, and

in the UCS 66 table, the minimum permissible
temperature without impact testing designated -26
degree F. So with this clause you can reduce it to -36
degree F(-26 -8 = -34). Your MDMT is -27 degree F, so
you are exempted from impact testing with this clause.
UCS-68(c)
Let us change one variable in the above example. Let's

assume you need to have -45 degree F for your MDMT.
Other variable are the same; it means normalized SA
516 Gr.70 listed in curve D, thickness 1.125, so you can
see you are not exempted by UCS-66(b);
This is because the minimum permissible temperature

is -36 degree F, but your MDMT is -45 degree F, so
UCS-68(c) might be helpful.
It says that if post weld heat treatment is not a code

requirement and your P-No is 1 and you carry out post
weld heat treatment, a 30 degree F bonus will be
granted to you to reduce the minimum permissible
temperature in table UCS-66.
So when post weld heat treatment is code

requirement?
It is code requirement when your service is lethal and

when your thickness for P-No. 1 is greater than 1.5 inch;
So, for our example, our service is not lethal and our P-
No. is 1 and thickness is 1.125 and it is less than 1.5
inch: therefore, post weld heat treatment is not code
requirement.
It means if you carry out post heat treatment, a 30

degree F bonus will be granted by this clause. For this
example our minimum permissible temperature would
be -36-30=-66 degree F, and your MDMT is -45 degree
F, so you are exempted from impact testing.
Now the worst case: in the above, assume you need to

have -70 degree F for your MDMT; you can see with this
new condition you cannot be exempted even by UCS-
68(c) and you have to carry out impact testing.
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Murali Babu
relay good explanation.thanks.
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Great effort.thanks, but there should be a quite amendment
concrning your reference for ASME code UG-20 (f): the right
code statement is the material shall be limited to P No. 1 Gr.
No. 1 &2..(not P No. 1 & 2...)
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Nilesh Bondre
Very good explanation.
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Naranjan Dev Makker

Simple way to understand.ASME section8.
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aullattil
Very good explanation.
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sangh_ritesh
Very helpful....Thanks
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Mohamed Al-Amir Al-Khayat

Great many thanks.
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Hafizi HZnumismatic
Good explanation to clear any doubt. How about duplex
material? How you define the impact testing requirement for
duplex flange? As per UHA 51(d) impact testing is mandatory
for nominal thickness of duplex that is more than 10mm. How
we define the nominal thickness of flange? Considering the
10mm thickness if we are using overall flange thickness as
nominal thickness then it is possibility that all duplex flange w
nominal thickness then it is possibility that all duplex flange w
have to go for impact testing. Please advise.
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Faizur Rahman
realy vry nice 1... itsvery easy to understnd, thks alot.....
Bipin Singh
Really very good by example ,
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Blog UG-20(f) →→→UCS-66(a) →→→ UCS-66(b)

First you have to keep your pressure vessel design data

For some cases, You might be exempted from the

or UCS-66(b) or UCS-68(c). If you are not exempted,

I am at least This test would be more costly out of the US because of

understand But you need to refer to Fig UCS-66 in ASME Code

send me a You need to know that the materials listed in curve D

B have better toughness than materials listed in Curve A

See Following Fig UCS-66(a):

When you determine your MOC curve, then you have to

For instance, the vessel should be hydrostatically tested

For example, if your MOC is a normalized SA 516 Gr.70

Your thickness, in this example, is 0.75 of an inch, and

So assume that in the above example, your MOC

But for assessment, based on this clause, you need to

In a similar way, locate -20 degree F in the vertical axes

See above Figure, the lines are identified in red.

If the cross point falls above the curve D (because your

To simplify your assessment for the ASME impact test

See following UCS-66(a) Table:

In the above example (normalized SA 516 Gr.70, Curve

Let us explain this clause with the above example. Your

So you are here to continue your assessment to find a

Ratio= tr E / (tn –c)

tr is the required design thickness for all applicable

Ratio = 0.95x1/(1.125 – 0.125) Ratio= 0.95

See following Fig UCS-66(b):

Then go to the Figure UCS-66(b) and in the vertical

You will be able to reach a value of 8 in the horizontal

In the above example, your MDMT is -27 degree F, and

Let us change one variable in the above example. Let's

This is because the minimum permissible temperature

It says that if post weld heat treatment is not a code

So when post weld heat treatment is code

It is code requirement when your service is lethal and

It means if you carry out post heat treatment, a 30

Now the worst case: in the above, assume you need to

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