SECTION II-A

Subject Interpretation File No.

Material Test Report Requirement for SA-240/SA-240M, Section II, Part A
(2001 Edition, 2002 and 2003 Addenda) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . II-A-04-9R BC04-1068*
Material Test Report Requirements in SA-20/SA-20M, in Section II, Part A
(2004 Edition) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . II-A-04-11 BC05-216
SA-577/SA-577M Requirement for Ultrasonic Examination of Plate Material,
Section II, Part A (2004 Edition) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . II-A-04-10 BC05-359
Interpretation: II-A-04-09R
Subject: Material Test Report Requirement for SA-240/SA-240M, Section II, Part A (2001 Edition, 2002
and 2003 Addenda)
Date Issued: September 28, 2004
File: BC04-1068*
Question: For stainless steel plate, sheet or strip supplied to SA-240/SA-240M, is it necessary for the
certication to include the following sentence on the material test report: The material was manufactured,
sampled, tested, and inspected in accordance with the requirements of SA-240/SA-240M and has been
found to meet those requirements?
Reply: No.
Interpretation: II-A-04-10
Subject: SA-577/SA-577M Requirement for Ultrasonic Examination of Plate Material, in Section II, Part A
(2004 Edition)
Date Issued: March 11, 2005
File: BC05-359
Question: When a steel plate is examined by the ultrasonic method in accordance with SA-577/SA-577M
and no indications that equal or exceed the required calibration curve are found following the scan with
the 45 deg angle beam search transducer, is an additional scan required using an alternate angle beam
transducer?
Reply: No.
Interpretation: II-A-04-11
Subject: Material Test Report Requirements in SA-20/SA-20M, in Section II, Part A (2004 Edition)
Date Issued: April 12, 2005
File: BC05-216
Question (1): Can as cast ingot or hot worked continuously cast material that does not meet the reduction
requirements of 5.3 of Specication SA-20/SA-20M be certied to Specication SA-516/SA-516M?
Reply (1): No.
Question (2): Is certication of strand cast slab material that is supplied for hot rolling into steel plate
to a product specication included in Section II-Arequired to include the specication number and year date?
Reply (2): No.
Question (3): For strand cast material that has been hot rolled into plate and supplied to a second supplier
for certication to a Section II-A steel pressure vessel plate specication, must the original manufacturers
certication indicate that the requirements of Section 5 Material and Manufacture of Specication
SA-20/SA-20M have been met?
Reply (3): Yes.
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