STEEL TUBE AND PIPE HANDBOOK - February 2012

2 Contents Committee for standardization and standard ............................................................................................................................................ 3 Steel tubes – classification and terminology ............................................................................................................................................. 3 Technical standards of steel tubes ............................................................................................................................................................... 3 Production programm – products classification by application ............................................................................................................. 4 Production flow chart in Železiarne Podbrezová ...................................................................................................................................... 6 Review of basic characteristics of steel tubes ............................................................................................................................................ 8 Tube dimensions ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 8 Steel for tubes ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 8 Technical delivery conditions (TDC) of tubes (excludes testing) ........................................................................................................ 10 Tube testing .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 10 Quality management system, certification, legislation ............................................................................................................................ 12 Product section ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 13 Conversion table ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 69 Supplements: Packaging of tubes and pipes ................................................................................................................ .............................................. 103 Mechanical and technological testing of tubes and pipes ................................................................................................................ 104 Informationelly comparison of steels ...................................................................................................................................................... 106 Conversion table for hardness and tensile strength ............................................................................................................................... 117 Summary of technical delivery conditions for groups of tubes according to purpose of application ............................................. 118 Note: Page numbers of actual product sort and groups – see production programm on the page 4–5. Special tables and reference Carbon equivalent formula ..................................................................................................................................................................... 14 Hot dip zinc coating of steel pipes .........................................................................................................................................................15 Leakage test according to standards ASTM A (ASME SA) ..................................................................................................................23 Pressure equipment and legislation in EN ..............................................................................................................................................25 Dimension tolerances according to ISO 1129 …………………………………………..............................................................………….......27 Ovality, eccentricity…………………………………………………………………………….....................................................................………… 27 Tolerances according to standards ASTM A 530 and A 999 ……………………………..........................................................………..…29 Conversion table of inch and decimal values ……………………………………………...............................................................………....…30 Standard wire gauge for wall thickness …………………………………………………................................................................………..……30 Tolerances according to standards ASTM A 450 and A 1016 ..……………………...........................................................………….……33 NDE of boiler tubes according to standards ASTM ……………………………………............................................................………...……39 Condition and heat treatment terminology of precision tubes ……………………...........................................................…………….……63 Galvanic protection of the outer surface of the tubes ...........................................................................................................................79 Preparation of ends ………………………………………………………………………………....................................................................……....92 NACE International Standards ………………………………………………………………….................................................................…….... 93 Dear customers, dear ladies and gentlemen, we prepare this technical tube guide with the wiew of continual development of our firm mutual business relations. Tube guide includes technical data of steel tubes and tube semi-products, made in company Železiarne Podbrezová. Technical data are included in national and worl-wide standards or regulations, or bilateral technical delivery conditions and terms. Application of tube products have to be in compliance with particular law and rules, concerning safety, healt protection and environment. For this reason is short standardisation survey listed in handbook. Attention: In the countries of European Union there were European standards (EN) adapted into the system of national standards. Previous standards are not valid by now. Previous standards should not be used in commercial communication for this reason, but valid EN standards. Data from previous standards, shown in surveys, during temporary period support the comparison of individual tube parameters, older technical documentation study, possible tube alternative to previous standards finding e.t.c. GOST, USA (ASTM,ASME, ANSI,API ) and JIS standards are still valid.