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BS EN -> ASME equivalent standards

BS EN -> ASME equivalent standards

BS EN -> ASME equivalent standards

(OP)
Hi,

I work as a mechanical engineer on a power station mainly on statics such as boilers, pipelines, vessels etc. I have recently moved to another power station in the UK which has a mish-mash of equipment made to a variety of standards BS/EN/ASME. As i predominantly come from an ASME background i was wondering if anyone could suggest a list of BS standards equivalent to that of B31.3, B31.1, B16.5, ASME II, V, VIII, IX etc that i might find helpful for repair work such as material properties, PWHT temperatures, welding (WPS & PQR and such..), flange ratings & dimensions, creep properties etc.....

I have heard that some of the older plant is built to BS 806 and BS 1113 so sould it be helpful to obtain these? I have also heard PD 5550 is a useful one.

Longer the list the better, my company has access to the BS EN online shop.

Thanks in advance, Karl

RE: BS EN -> ASME equivalent standards

You are quite right, there is a whole mess of Codes in Brit power stations, partly due to withdrawal of BS806 and others. New and re-vamp work tends to be to ASME B31.1 or EN 13480 for piping and PD 5500 for vessels. As you may know, PD 5500 is very similar to ASME VIII div 1. If it's a British Energy station their Barnwood HQ people are very helpful. Seems like it's time to use that BS EN link.  

RE: BS EN -> ASME equivalent standards

(OP)
Thankyou C2it, i've been having a look through PD 5500 and EN 13480 and they seem quite different to ASME but i suppose roughly contain the same information. Is there any others you might know of? Like for welder quals etc.?

Despite living in a metric country these PN flanges give me a headache.

Whats this BS EN link?

RE: BS EN -> ASME equivalent standards

BS EN link ... to your on-line shop. Sorry, don'thave any stuff on welded quals.

RE: BS EN -> ASME equivalent standards

LSThill

Thanks for the link to the gowelding site.  That's a nice compilation of a lot of links.

Patricia Lougheed

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RE: BS EN -> ASME equivalent standards

(OP)
That website is solid gold, just clicked the wps icon on the left and it completely sorted me out with all the information i need about european welding specifications

Cheers

RE: BS EN -> ASME equivalent standards

hint:  Buy a small (I use a belt-clip mounted 13 foot Stanley tape measure) metric-ANSI tape measure.  

Keep it with you.  Read it each time you have to think about the conversion, because you'll see both the units at the same time.  Remember, no ANSI (inches) pipe is really an "inches" unit in any dimension either, and most metric pipes are simply ANSI pipes called something else:  A 150 mm is a 6 inch, a 100 mm is a 4 inch pipe, etc.   

In my belt clip for my business cards and flashlight, I keep a small (4 inch) metric-ANSI caliper for the smaller conversions.

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