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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 1 of 2 5/17/2019 11:39 AM ASME Impact Test Requirement https://www.inspection-for-industry.com/asme-impact-test-requirement...
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) 2 of 2 5/17/2019 11:39 AM