ASTM A450/A450M-02

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Designation: A 450/A 450M – 02
Standard Specification for
General Requirements for Carbon, Ferritic Alloy, and
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Austenitic Alloy Steel Tubes
This standard is issued under the fixed designationA 450/A 450M; 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 (ε) indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.
This standard has been approved for use by agencies of the Department of Defense.
1. Scope * be used independently of the other. Combining values from the
2 two systems may result in nonconformance with the specifi-
1.1 This specification covers a group of requirements
cation. The inch-pound units shall apply unless the “M”
which, with the exceptions of 4.3 and Sections 5, 6, 17, 18, 19,
designation (SI) of the product specification is specified in the
20, 21, 22, and 23, are mandatory requirements to the follow-
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order.
ing ASTM tubular product specifications:
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Title of Specification ASTM Designation
2. Referenced Documents
Electric-Resistance-Welded Carbon Steel and Carbon A 178/A 178M 2.1 ASTM Standards:
Manganese Steel Boiler Tubes
A 370 Test Methods and Definitions for MechanicalTesting
Seamless Cold-Drawn Low-Carbon Steel Heat- A 179/A 179M
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of Steel Products
Exchanger and Condenser Tubes
A 530/A 530M Specification for General Requirements for
Seamless Carbon Steel Boiler Tubes for High-Pressure A 192/A 192M
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Service
Specialized Carbon and Alloy Steel Pipe
Seamless Medium-Carbon Steel Boiler and Super- A 210/A 210M
A 700 Practices for Packaging, Marking, and Loading
heater Tubes
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Electric-Resistance-Welded Carbon Steel Heat- A 214/A 214M Methods for Steel Products for Domestic Shipment
Exchanger and Condenser Tubes
A 751 Test Methods, Practices, and Terminology for
Seamless and Electric-Welded Low-Alloy Steel Tubes A 423/A 423M
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Chemical Analysis of Steel Products
Electric-Resistance-Welded Coiled Steel Tubing for A 539
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Gas and Fuel Oil Lines D 3951 Practice for Commercial Packaging
Seamless Cold-Drawn Carbon Steel Feedwater Heater A 556/A 556M
E 92 Test Method for Vickers Hardness of Metallic Mate-
Tubes
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rials
Seamless, Cold-Drawn Carbon Steel Tubing for Hy- A 822
draulic System Service E 213 Practice for Ultrasonic Examination of Metal Pipe
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These designations refer to the latest issue of the respective specifications. and Tubing
1.2 One or more of Sections 4.3, 5, 6, 17, 18, 19, 20, 20.1,
E 273 Practice for Ultrasonic Examination of the Weld
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22, and 23 apply when the product specification or purchase
Zone of Welded Pipe and Tubing
order has a requirement for the test or analysis described by
E 309 Practice for Eddy-Current Examination of Steel Tu-
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these sections.
bular Products Using Magnetic Saturation
1.3 In case of conflict between a requirement of the product
E 426 Practice for Electromagnetic (Eddy-Current) Exami-
specification and a requirement of this general requirement
nation of Seamless and Welded Tubular Products, Auste-
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specification only the requirement of the product specification
nitic Stainless Steel, and Similar Alloys
need be satisfied.
E 570 Practice for Flux Leakage Examination of Ferromag-
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1.4 The values stated in either inch-pound units or SI units
netic Steel Tubular Products
are to be regarded separately as standard. Within the text, the
2.2 Federal Standard:
SI units are shown in brackets. The values stated in each
Fed.Std.No.183 ContinuousIdentificationMarkingofIron
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system are not exact equivalents; therefore, each system must
and Steel Products
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This specification is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee A01 on Steel, Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Vol 01.03.
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Stainless Steel and Related Alloys and is the direct responsibility of Subcommittee Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Vol 01.01.
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A01.09 on Carbon Steel Tubular Products. Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Vol 01.05.
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Current edition approved Sept. 10, 2002. Published October 2002. Originally Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Vol 15.09.
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published as A 450 – 61 T. Last previous edition A 450/A 450M – 96a (2001). Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Vol 03.01.
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For ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code applications see related Specifi- Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Vol 03.03.
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cation SA-450 in Section II of that Code. Available from Standardization Documents Order Desk, DODSSP, Bldg. 4,
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Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Vols 01.01 and 01.04. Section D, 700 Robbins Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19111-5098.
*A Summary of Changes section appears at the end of this standard.
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