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The ASME Impact Test Requirement


article provides you with information
about impact test requirements in
pressure vessel design and
construction.

Let's say, you have a pressure vessel


under design, process and construction
has not started yet.

Based on the ASME impact test


requirement, you need to make
assessment to see that either your
pressure vessel is exempted from
impact testing, or you need to carry out
the test.

There are 4 steps for impact test


exemption assessment. You need to
know these steps. You might be
exempted in the first, second or third
steps and might not be exempted even
in step 4.

So if you are in step 4 and you have not


exempted, then you need to carry out
the test. I will explain the process for
exemption in this article.

Basic Concept:

You may know carbon steels and low


alloy steels exhibit a drastic change in
their room temperature ductility at
sub-zero service temperatures.
Different types of materials exhibit
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sub-zero service temperatures.


Different types of materials exhibit
different types of transition behavior.

We can see there is a sudden,


phenomenal drop in their notch-
toughness properties below the
"transition" range of temperature, which
should be a matter of concern for us.

Body centered cubic or Ferritic alloys


exhibit a significant transition in
behavior when impact tested over a
range of temperatures. Above transition
temperature range, impact specimens
fracture in a "ductile" manner, absorbing
relatively large amounts of energy.

At

lower temperatures, i.e. below the


transition temperature range, the
impact test specimens are found to
fracture in a brittle (cleavage) manner,
absorbing less energy.

And within the transition temperature


range, the fracture is a mixture of
ductile and brittle nature.

A material would be invulnerable to a


sudden drop in notch-toughness at the
lowest specified service (or design)
temperature, if it is proved by
conducting Charpy V-notch Impact tests
on representative test samples, at
reference (the lowest service)
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