ASME '04 Boiler Code ready to order


The 2004 ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel Code will be available the week of Aug. 16, but you can place your order now online, at www.asme.org/bpvc.

The International Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code establishes rules of safety governing the design, fabrication, and inspection of boilers and pressure vessels, and nuclear power plant components during construction. The objective of those rules is to provide a margin for deterioration in service.

The 2004 Code includes two new sections, "Section II, Part D Properties (Metric)," and "Section XII Rules for Construction and Continued Service of Transportation Tanks."

Section II, Part D is a service book to other Code sections providing tables of design stress values, tensile and yield strength values, and tables and charts of material properties. Part D facilitates ready identification of specific materials to specific sections of the Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code.

In addition, Part D contains appendices that contain criteria for establishing allowable stress, the bases for establishing external pressure charts, and information required for approval of new materials.

The other new section, Section XII, covers requirements for construction and continued service of pressure vessels for the transportation of dangerous goods via highway, rail, air or water at pressures from full vacuum to 3,000 psig and volumes greater than 120 gallons.

"Construction" is an all-inclusive term comprising materials, design, fabrication, examination, inspection, testing, certification, and over-pressure protection. "Continued service" refers to inspection, testing, repair, alteration, and recertification of a transport tank that has been in service.

Section XII also contains modal appendices containing requirements for vessels used in specific transport modes and service applications. Rules pertaining to the use of the T Code symbol stamp are included as well.

The complete 2004 International Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (Order No. B00230), which comprises more than 30 volumes, costs $9,700. The Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code also can be purchased by section.

For more pricing information, or to find out more about the Code, visit ASME.ORG, www.asme.org/bpvc; or call Information Central, (800) 843-2763 or (973) 882-1167.

 

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