
Designation: B 720 – 93 An American National Standard
Standard Specification for
Seamless UNS N08310 Tube
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This standard is issued under the fixed designation B 720; 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 (e) indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.
1. Scope
1.1 This specification covers seamless cold-worked tubes of
UNS Alloy N08310 for use in condenser and heat-exchanger
service.
1.2 This specification covers outside-diameter and nominal-
wall or outside-diameter and minimum-wall tube.
1.2.1 The sizes covered by this specification are 3 in. (75
mm) and under in outside diameter with minimum wall
thickness of 0.250 in. (6.4 mm) and under, and with nominal
wall thickness of 0.278 in. (7 mm) and under.
1.3 Tube shall be furnished in the annealed condition.
1.4 The values stated in inch-pound units are to be regarded
as the standard. The values stated in parentheses are for
information only.
1.5 The following safety hazards caveat pertains only to the
test method portion, Section 11, of this specification. This
standard does not purport to address all of the safety problems,
if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user
of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health
practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limita-
tions prior to use.
2. Referenced Documents
2.1 ASTM Standards:
E 8 Test Methods for Tension Testing of Metallic Materials
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E 29 Practice for Using Significant Digits in Test Data to
Determine Conformance with Specifications
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E 38 Methods for Chemical Analysis of Nickel-Chromium
and Nickel-Chromium-Iron Alloys
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E 354 Test Methods for Chemical Analysis of High-
Temperature, Electrical, Magnetic, and Other Similar Iron,
Nickel, and Cobalt Alloys
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3. Ordering Information
3.1 Orders for material to this specification shall include
information with respect to the following:
3.1.1 ASTM designation and year of issue,
3.1.2 Finish.
3.1.3 Dimensions—Outside diameter, minimum or nominal
wall thickness (in inches or millimetres, not gage number), and
length.
3.1.3.1 Whether minimum or nominal-wall tubing is to be
furnished.
3.1.4 Fabrication Operations:
3.1.4.1 Cold bending or coiling.
3.1.4.2 Packing.
3.1.4.3 Rolling or expanding into tube sheets.
3.1.4.4 Welding or Brazing—Process to be employed.
3.1.4.5 Pressure Requirements, if other than required by 4.3.
3.1.4.6 Ends—Plain ends cut and deburred will be fur-
nished.
3.1.5 Certification—State if certification is required (Sec-
tion 15).
3.1.6 Samples for Product (Check) Analysis, whether
samples for product (check) analysis shall be furnished.
3.1.7 Purchaser Inspection—If purchaser wishes to witness
tests or inspection of material at place of manufacture, the
purchase order must so state indicating which tests or inspec-
tions are to be witnessed (Section 13).
4. Mechanical and Other Requirements
4.1 Mechanical Properties—The material shall conform to
the mechanical properties specified in Table 1.
4.2 Flare—A flare test shall be made on one end of each
random length tube after final heat treatment.
4.2.1 The flare test shall consist of flaring a test specimen
with an expanding tool having an included angle of 60° until
the specified outside diameter has been increased by 30 %. The
flared specimen shall not exhibit cracking through the wall.
4.3 Hydrostatic Test:
4.3.1 Each tube with an outside diameter
1
⁄
8
in. and larger
and tubes with wall thickness of 0.015 in. (0.38 mm) and over
shall be tested by the manufacturer to an internal hydrostatic
pressure of 1000 psi (7 MPa) provided that the fiber stress
calculated in accordance with the following equation does not
exceed the allowable fiber stress, S, indicated below. The tube
shall show no evidence of leakage.
P52St/D(1)
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This specification is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee B-2 on
Nonferrous Metals and Alloys and is the direct responsibility of Subcommittee
B02.07 on Refined Nickel and Cobalt, and Alloys Containing Nickel or Cobalt or
Both as Principal Constituents.
Current edition approved Feb. 15, 1993. Published April 1993. Originally
published as B 720 – 83. Last previous edition B 720 – 88.
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Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Vol 03.01.
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Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Vol 14.02.
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Discontinued—see 1989 Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Vol 03.05.
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Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Vol 03.05.
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