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Description / Abstract:
INTRODUCTION
This study investigated the impact test exemption curves of ASME
Section VIII, UCS-66, with the objective of extending them to
thicknesses representative of piping components. Specifically, the
purposes of the investigation included:
- Extension of the curves (particularly Curves for material
groups A and B) to lower temperatures and to thicknesses less than
0.394 inches
- To understand the technical and historical origin of these
curves
- To expand in a more systematic and complete way the several
exceptions to these curves, namely UCS-66(d) and UG-20(f)
- Evaluation of data and history in light of modern steel
production methods, which produce materials that are less prone to
low temperature failures.