1. Scope 1.1 This specication2 covers minimum-wall-thickness, seamless medium-carbon steel, boiler tubes and boiler ues, including safe ends (see Note 1), arch and stay tubes, and superheater tubes.
NOTE 1This type is not suitable for safe ending by forge welding.
A 450/A 450M Specication for General Requirements for Carbon and Low Alloy Steel Tubes 3. Ordering Information 3.1 Orders for material under this specication should include the following, as required, to describe the desired material adequately: 3.1.1 Quantity (feet, metres, or number of lengths), 3.1.2 Name of material (seamless tubes), 3.1.3 Grade, 3.1.4 Manufacture (hot-nished or cold-nished), 3.1.5 Size (outside diameter and minimum wall thickness), 3.1.6 Length (specic or random), 3.1.7 Optional requirements (Sections 7 and 10), 3.1.8 Test report required, (see Certication Section of Specication A 450/A 450M), 3.1.9 Specication designation, and 3.1.10 Special requirements. 4. General Requirements 4.1 Material furnished under this specication shall conform to the applicable requirements of the current edition of Specication A 450/A 450M, unless otherwise provided herein. 5. Manufacture 5.1 Steelmaking PracticeThe steel shall be killed. 5.2 The tubes shall be made by the seamless process and shall be either hot-nished or cold-nished, as specied. 6. Heat Treatment 6.1 Hot-nished tubes need not be heat treated. Coldnished tubes shall be given a subcritical anneal, a full anneal, or a normalizing heat treatment after the nal cold nishing process.
1.2 The tubing sizes and thicknesses usually furnished to this specication are 12 in. to 5 in. [12.7 to 127 mm] in outside diameter and 0.035 to 0.500 in. [0.9 to 12.7 mm], inclusive, in minimum wall thickness. Tubing having other dimensions may be furnished, provided such tubes comply with all other requirements of this specication. 1.3 Mechanical property requirements do not apply to tubing smaller than 18 in. [3.2 mm] in inside diameter or 0.015 in. [0.4 mm] in thickness. 1.4 The values stated in either inch-pound units or SI units are to be regarded separately as standard. Within the text, the SI units are shown in brackets. The values stated in each system are not exact equivalents; therefore, each system must be used independently of the other. Combining values from the two systems may result in nonconformance with the specication. The inch-pound units shall apply unless the M designation of this specication is specied in the order. 2. Referenced Documents 2.1 ASTM Standards: 3
1 This specication is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee A01 on Steel, Stainless Steel and Related Alloys and is the direct responsibility of Subcommittee A01.09 on Carbon Steel Tubular Products. Current edition approved Nov. 1, 2007. Published January 2008. Originally approved in 1938. Last previous edition approved in 2002 as A 210/A 210M 02. 2 For ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code applications see related Specication SA-210 in Section II of that Code. 3 For referenced ASTM standards, visit the ASTM website, www.astm.org, or contact ASTM Customer Service at service@astm.org. For Annual Book of ASTM Standards volume information, refer to the standards Document Summary page on the ASTM website.
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10. Tensile Requirements 10.1 The material shall conform to the requirements as to tensile properties prescribed in Table 3. 10.2 Table 4 gives the computed minimum elongation values for each 132-in. [0.8-mm] decrease in wall thickness. Where the wall thickness lies between two values shown
TABLE 1 Chemical Requirements
Element Grade A-1 Carbon , max Manganese Phosphorus, max Sulfur, max Silicon, min
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above, the minimum elongation value shall be determined by the following equation:
E 5 48t 1 15.00 [E 5 1.87t 1 15.00]
where: E = elongation in 2 in. or 50 mm, %, and t = actual thickness of specimen, in. [mm]. 11. Hardness Requirements 11.1 The tubes shall have a hardness not exceeding the following: 79 HRB or 143 HB for Grade A-1, 89 HRB or 179 HB for Grade C. 12. Mechanical Tests Required 12.1 Tension TestOne tension test shall be made on a specimen for lots of not more than 50 tubes. Tension tests shall be made on specimens from two tubes for lots of more than 50 tubes (see Note 3).
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A For each reduction of 0.01 % below the specied carbon maximum, an increase of 0.06 % manganese above the specied maximum will be permitted up to a maximum of 1.35 %.
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