2.3 AWS Standard:
A5.9 Corrosion-Resisting Chromium and Chromium-Nickel
Steel Welding Rods and Electrodes
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2.4 Other Standard:
SAE J1086 Practice for Numbering Metals and Alloys
(UNS)
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3. Terminology
3.1 Definitions:
3.1.1 The definitions in Specification A999/A999M and
Terminology A941 are applicable to this specification.
4. Ordering Information
4.1 Orders for material to this specification shall conform to
the requirements of the current edition of Specification A999/
A999M.
5. General Requirements
5.1 Material furnished under this specification shall con-
form to the applicable requirements of the current edition of
Specification A999/A999M unless otherwise provided herein.
6. Materials and Manufacture
6.1 Manufacture:
6.1.1 The pipe shall be manufactured by one of the follow-
ing processes:
6.1.2 Seamless (SML) pipe shall be made by a process that
does not involve welding at any stage of production.
6.1.3 Welded (WLD) pipe shall be made using an automatic
welding process with no addition of filler metal during the
welding process.
6.1.4 Heavily cold-worked (HCW) pipe shall be made by
applying cold working of not less than 35 % reduction in
thickness of both wall and weld to a welded pipe prior to the
final anneal. No filler shall be used in making the weld. Prior
to cold working, the weld shall be 100 % radiographically
inspected in accordance with the requirements of ASME Boiler
and Pressure Vessel Code, Section VIII, Division 1, latest
revision, Paragraph UW-51.
6.1.5 Welded pipe and HCW pipe of NPS 14 and smaller
shall have a single longitudinal weld. Welded pipe and HCW
pipe of a size larger than NPS 14 shall have a single
longitudinal weld or shall be produced by forming and welding
two longitudinal sections of flat stock when approved by the
purchaser. All weld tests, examinations, inspections, or treat-
ments shall be performed on each weld seam.
6.1.6 At the option of the manufacturer, pipe shall be either
hot finished or cold finished.
6.1.7 The pipe shall be free of scale and contaminating
exogenous iron particles. Pickling, blasting, or surface finish-
ing is not mandatory when pipe is bright annealed. The
purchaser is permitted to require that a passivating treatment be
applied to the finished pipe.
6.2 Heat Treatment—All pipe shall be furnished in the
heat-treated condition in accordance with the requirements of
Table 2. Alternatively, for seamless pipe, immediately follow-
ing hot forming while the temperature of the pipes is not less
than the minimum solution treatment temperature specified in
Table 2, pipes shall be individually quenched in water or
rapidly cooled by other means (direct quenched).
7. Chemical Composition
7.1 The steel shall conform to the requirements as to
chemical composition prescribed in Table 1.
8. Product Analysis
8.1 At the request of the purchaser, an analysis of one billet
or one length of flat-rolled stock from each heat, or two pipes
from each lot shall be made by the manufacturer. A lot of pipe
shall consist of the following number of lengths of the same
size and wall thickness from any one heat of steel:
NPS Designator Lengths of Pipe in Lot
Under 2 400 or fraction thereof
2 to 5 200 or fraction thereof
6 and over 100 or fraction thereof
8.2 The results of these analyses shall be reported to the
purchaser or the purchaser’s representative, and shall conform
to the requirements specified in Section 7.
8.3 If the analysis of one of the tests specified in 8.1 does
not conform to the requirements specified in Section 7, an
analysis of each billet or pipe from the same heat or lot may be
made, and all billets or pipe conforming to the requirements
shall be accepted.
9. Permitted Variations in Wall Thickness
9.1 In addition to the implicit limitation of wall thickness
for seamless pipe imposed by the limitation on weight in
Specification A999/A999M, the wall thickness for seamless
and welded pipe at any point shall be within the tolerances
specified in Table 3, except that for welded pipe the weld area
shall not be limited by the “Over” tolerance. The wall thickness
and outside diameter for inspection for compliance with this
requirement for pipe ordered by NPS and schedule number is
shown in Table X1.1.
10. Tensile Requirements
10.1 The tensile properties of the material shall conform to
the requirements prescribed in Table 4.
11. Mechanical Tests, Grain Size Determinations, and
Weld Decay Tests Required
11.1 Mechanical Testing Lot Definition—The term lot for
mechanical tests shall be as follows:
11.1.1 Where the final heat treated condition is obtained,
consistent with the requirements of 6.2, in a continuous furnace
or by quenching after hot forming, the term lot for mechanical
tests shall apply to all pipes of the same specified outside
diameter and specified wall thickness (or schedule) of the same
heat, heat treated in the same furnace at the same temperature,
time at heat, and furnace speed in the same production run, or
all pipes of the same specified outside diameter and specified
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Available from American Welding Society (AWS), 550 NW LeJeune Rd.,
Miami, FL 33126, http://www.aws.org.
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Available from Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), 400 Commonwealth
Dr., Warrendale, PA 15096-0001, http://www.sae.org.
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