2.3 MSS Standards:
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MSS SP-43 Standard Practice for Light Weight Stainless
Steel Butt-Welding Fittings
MSS SP-79 Socket-Welding Reducer Inserts
MSS SP-83 Steel Pipe Unions, Socket-Welding and
Threaded
MSS SP-95 Swage(d) Nipples and Bull Plugs
MSS SP-97 Integrally Reinforced Forged Branch Outlet
Fittings—Socket Welding, Threaded and Buttwelding
Ends
2.4 ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Codes:
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Section VIII Division I
Section IX
2.5 ASNT Standard:
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SNT-TC-1A Recommended Practice for Nondestructive
Testing Personnel Qualification and Certification
3. Common Requirements and Ordering Information
3.1 Material furnished to this specification shall conform to
the requirements of Specification A960/A960M including any
supplementary requirements that are indicated in the purchase
order. Failure to comply with the common requirements of
Specification A960/A960M constitutes nonconformance with
this specification. In case of conflict between this specification
and Specification A960/A960M, this specification shall pre-
vail.
3.2 Specification A960/A960M identifies the ordering infor-
mation that should be complied with when purchasing material
to this specification.
4. Materials
4.1 The material for fittings shall consist of forgings, bars,
plates, or seamless or welded tubular products that conform to
the chemical requirements in Table 1.
4.2 The steel shall be melted by one of the following
processes:
4.2.1 Electric furnace (with separate degassing and refining
optional),
4.2.2 Vacuum furnace, or
4.2.3 Electric furnace followed by vacuum or electroslag-
consumable remelting.
4.3 If secondary melting is employed, the heat shall be
defined as all ingots remelted from a primary heat.
5. Manufacture
5.1 Forming—Forging or shaping operations may be per-
formed by hammering, pressing, piercing, extruding, upsetting,
rolling, bending, fusion welding, machining or by combination
of two or more of these operations. The forming procedure
shall be so applied that it will not produce surface discontinui-
ties deeper than 5 % of the specified nominal thickness of the
fitting.
5.2 All classes of fittings shall be heat treated in accordance
with Section 6.
5.3 Fittings ordered as Class WP-S shall be of seamless
construction and shall meet all requirements of Specification
A960/A960M.
5.4 Fittings ordered as Class WP-W shall meet the require-
ments of Specification A960/A960M and (1) shall have all
welds made by the fitting manufacturer and all pipe welds
made with the addition of filler metal radiographically exam-
ined throughout the entire length in accordance with Paragraph
UW-51 of Section VIII, Division 1, of the ASME Boiler and
Pressure Vessel Code; and (2) shall not require radiography of
the starting pipe weld if the pipe was welded without the
addition of filler metal. In place of radiographic examination,
welds made by the fitting manufacturer may be ultrasonically
examined in accordance with the code requirements stated in
5.6.
5.5 Fittings ordered as Class WP-WX shall meet the re-
quirements of Specification A960/A960M and shall have all
welds, whether made by the fitting manufacturer or the starting
material manufacturer, radiographically examined throughout
their entire length in accordance with Paragraph UW-51 of
Section VIII, Division I of the ASME Boiler and Pressure
Vessel Code. The radiography of welds for this class of fittings
can be done either prior to or after forming at the option of the
manufacturer.
5.6 Fittings ordered as Class WP-WU shall meet the re-
quirements of Specification A960/A960M and shall have all
welds, whether made by the fitting manufacturer or the starting
material manufacturer, ultrasonically examined throughout
their entire length in accordance with Appendix 12 of Section
VIII, Division 1 of ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code.
5.7 The radiography or ultrasonic examination for this class
of fittings may be done at the option of the manufacturer, either
prior to or after forming.
5.8 Personnel performing NDE examinations shall be quali-
fied in accordance with SNT-TC-1A.
5.9 Fittings covered in Specification A960/A960M and
ordered as CR shall meet the requirements of Specification
A960/A960M and do not require nondestructive examination.
5.10 All classes of fittings shall have the welders, welding
operators, and welding procedures qualified under the provi-
sions of Section IX of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel
Code except that starting pipe welds made without the addition
of filler metal do not require such qualification.
5.11 All joints welded with filler metal shall be finished in
accordance with the requirements of Paragraph UW-35 (a) of
Section VIII, Division 1, of the ASME Boiler and Pressure
Vessel Code.
5.12 Fittings machined from bar shall be restricted to NPS 4
or smaller.
5.12.1 All caps machined from bar shall be examined by
liquid penetrant in accordance with Practice E165/E165M.
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Available from Manufacturers Standardization Society of the Valve and Fittings
Industry (MSS), 127 Park St., NE, Vienna, VA 22180-4602, http://www.mss-
hq.com.
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Available from American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT), P.O. Box
28518, 1711 Arlingate Ln., Columbus, OH 43228-0518, http://www.asnt.org.
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