APPENDIX 20 HUBS OF TUBESHEETS AND FLAT HEADS MACHINED FROM PLATE

20-1 SCOPE 20-3 EXAMINATION REQUIREMENTS

This Appendix covers the requirements for hubs of tubesheets and at heads machined from plate.

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MATERIAL

Plate shall be manufactured by a process that produces material having through thickness properties which are at least equal to those specied in the material specication. Such plate can be, but is not limited to, that produced by methods such as electroslag (ESR) and vacuum arc remelt (VAR). The plate must be tested and examined in accordance with the requirements of the material specication and the additional requirements specied in the following paragraphs. Test specimens, in addition to those required by the material specications, shall be taken in a direction parallel to the axis of the hub and as close to the hub as practical, as shown in Fig. UW-13.3. At least two tensile test specimens shall be taken from the plate in the proximity of the hub with one specimen taken from the center third of the plate width as rolled, and the second specimen taken at 90 deg. around the circumference from the other specimen. Both specimens shall meet the tensile and yield requirements of the SA material specication. All dimensional requirements of Fig. UW-13.3 shall apply. Subsize test specimens conforming to the requirements of Fig. 5 of SA-370 may be used if necessary, in which case the value for elongation in 2 inches (51 mm), required by the material specication, shall apply to the gage length specied in Fig. 5. The reduction-of-area shall not be less than 30%. (For those materials for which the material specication requires a reduction-of-area value greater than 30%, the higher value must be met.)

Each part shall be examined as follows. (a) Before and after machining, the part, regardless of thickness, shall be ultrasonically examined by the straight beam technique in accordance with SA-388. The examination shall be in two directions approximately at right angles, that is, from the cylindrical or at rectangular surfaces of the hub and in the axial direction of the hub. The part shall be unacceptable: (1) if the examination results show one or more indications accompanied by loss of back reection larger than 60% of the reference back reection; (2) if the examination results show indications larger than 40% of the reference back reection when accompanied by a 40% loss of back reection. (b) Before welding the hub of the tubesheet or at head to the adjacent shell, the hub shall be examined by magnetic particle or liquid penetrant methods in accordance with Appendix 6 or 8. (c) After welding, the weld and the area of the hub for at least 12 in. (13 mm) from the edge of the weld shall be 100% radiographed in accordance with UW51. As an alternative, the weld and hub area adjacent to the weld may be ultrasonically examined in accordance with Appendix 12.

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DATA REPORTS

When all the requirements of this Division and the supplemental requirements of this Appendix have been met, the following notation shall be entered on the Manufacturers Data Report under Remarks, Constructed in Conformance with Appendix 20, Hubs of Tubesheets and Flat Heads Machined from Plate.

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