ASTM B135M-00e1

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Designation: B 135M – 00
METRIC
Standard Specification for
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Seamless Brass Tube [Metric]
This standard is issued under the fixed designation B 135M; the number immediately following the designation indicates the year of
original adoption or, in the case of revision, the year of last revision. A number in parentheses indicates the year of last reapproval. A
superscript epsilon (e) indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.
This standard has been approved for use by agencies of the Department of Defense.
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e NOTE—The headings and footnotes in Tables 2 and 3 were editorially corrected from inch/pound to SI units in February
2002.
1. Scope B 153 Test Method for Expansion (Pin Test) of Copper and
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Copper-Alloy Pipe and Tubing
1.1 This specification covers seamless round and rectangu-
B 154 Test Method for Mercurous Nitrate Test for Copper
lar including square copper alloy tube in straight lengths. Ten
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and Copper Alloys
alloys are specified having the following nominal composi-
B 251M Specification for General Requirements for
tions:
Wrought Seamless Copper and Copper-Alloy Tube [Met-
Copper Nominal Composition, %
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ric]
Alloy Previously
UNS Used
B 601 Practice for Temper Designations for Copper and
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No. Designation Copper Zinc Lead Tin
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Copper Alloys—Wrought and Cast
E 243 Practice for Electromagnetic (Eddy-Current) Exami-
C22000 7 90.0 10.0 . .
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C23000 1 85.0 15.0 . .
nation of Copper and Copper-Alloy Tubes
C26000 2 70.0 30.0 . .
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E 527 Practice for Numbering Metals and Alloys (UNS)
C27000 9 65.0 35.0 . .
C27200 8 63.0 37.0 . .
3. Terminology
C27400 . 62.5 37.5 . .
C28000 5 60.0 40.0 . .
3.1 Definitions of Terms Specific to This Standard:
C33000 3 66.0 33.5 0.5 .
3.1.1 capable of—as used in this specification, the test need
C33200 4 66.0 32.4 1.6 .
C37000 6 60.0 39.0 1.0 .
not be performed by the producer of the material. However,
C44300 . 71 27.5 . 1.00
should subsequent testing by the purchaser establish that the
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material does not meet these requirements the material shall be
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Alloy Designations of ASTM Specification B 135 – 63 which was published in
subject to rejection.
the 1966 Book of ASTM Standards, Part 5.
NOTE 1—This specification is the metric companion of Specification
4. Ordering Information
B 135.
4.1 Orders for material under this specification shall include
1.2 Warning—Mercury is a definite health hazard in use
the following information:
and disposal. (See 10.1.)
4.1.1 Alloy (Section 1),
4.1.2 Temper (Section 7),
2. Referenced Documents
4.1.3 Whether tension tests are required (for drawn tempers
2.1 The following documents of the issue in effect on date
only (see 8.1)),
of material purchase form a part of this specification to the
4.1.4 Dimensions, the diameter or distance between parallel
extent referenced herein:
surfaces and wall thickness (see 11.2 and 11.3),
2.2 ASTM Standards:
4.1.5 Length (see 12.4),
4.1.6 Mercurous nitrate test, if required (Section 10),
4.1.7 Total length of each size,
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ThisspecificationisunderthejurisdictionofASTMCommitteeB05onCopper
and CopperAlloys and is the direct responsibility of Subcommittee B05.04 on Pipe
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and Tube. Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Vol 02.01.
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Current edition approved Sept. 10, 2000. Published November 2000. Originally Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Vol 03.03.
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published as B 135M – 84. Last previous edition B 135M – 96. Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Vol 01.01.
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B 135M
4.1.8 Hydrostatic pressure test, when specified, and temper shall be used. Rectangular including square tubes shall
4.1.9 Pneumatic test, when specified. normally be supplied only in drawn (general purpose) temper.
When there is a need for light-drawn or hard-drawn tempers
5. General Requirements
these are to be supplied as agreed upon between the manufac-
turer and the purchaser.
5.1 Material furnished under this specification shall con-
form to the applicable requirements of the current edition of 7.2 Annealed Tempers, O—The tempers of annealed tube
shall be designated as light anneal (O50) and soft anneal (O60)
Specification B 251M.
(Table 3).
6. Chemical Composition
NOTE 2—Tube of Copper Alloy UNS No. C23000, when specified to
6.1 Thematerialshallconformtothechemicalrequirements
meettherequirementsofthe ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code,shall
specified in Table 1.
have in the annealed condition a minimum tensile strength of 275 MPa
and a minimum yield strength of 80 MPa at 0.5 % extension under load,
6.2 These specification limits do not preclude the presence
in which case the provisions for grain size and Rockwell hardness in 8.2
of other elements. Limits for unnamed element
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