Regards to Managing Pressure Equipment in the Petroleum Industry in an Increasingly Regulated Environment API -510 *Covers The Pressure Vessel Once The ASME CODE STAPM in APPLIED! And NBIC

ALLOWABLE STRESS TABEL 1943-1993, AND JOINT EFFICENCY
Dose Codeware Compress Pressure Vessel and Heat Exchanger Software included the following:

1)ASME SECTION VIII, DIVISION 1 SELECTED ALLOWABLE STRESS TABEL UCS-23 AT METAL TEMPERTURE F Ext. Press Table: The first number indicates the type of metal. These metals are group in sections in the Code.

1-USS (carbon steel)
2-UNF (nonferrous, such as brass)
2-UHA (high alloy steel such as stainless steel

PIPE,  PLATE,  FORGING, BOLT,
1943 -1949
1950
1951 to 1998
1998 to present
Before 1976
1976 to 1998
1998 to present
1976 to 1987
PLATE
YEARS: 1956 -1967
YEAR:  1968 -1970
YEAR:  1970 – 1998
YEAR: 1998 – present

2). JOINT
JOINT EFFICENCY AND ALLOWABLE STRESS REDUCTIO FACORS Joint efficiency "Rule of 1995" – General joint Efficiency UW-12 ALLOWABLE STRESS REDUCTION FACTORS, SRF

"Rule of 1961 – 1987"
Shell, Heads, Cone, Floating Heads

Refer to definition of tr(4), UG-37(a), and UW-12(c) in any Code Book form 1962 to 1983

"Rule of 1962 – 1973"
"Rule of 1974 – 1986"
"Rule of 1987"
Nozzle Reinforcement
"Rule of 1962 – 1986"
"Rule of 1987"

 

L S THILL