Practical Piping Course

Minimum Required Charpy V Notch Impact Values (B31.3-1999)

Energy
Fully Deoxidized Other than Fully
Steels Deoxidized Steels
Specified Minimum Tensile Number of Specimens
Strength Joules Ft-lbf Joules Ft-lbf

(a) Carbon & Low Alloy Steels

SMTS 65 ksi 18 13 14 10
16 10 10 7
65 ksi SMTS 75 ksi Average for 3 specimens 20 15 18 13
Minimum for 1 specimen 16 12 14 10
75 ksi SMTS 95 ksi 27 20
20 15

Lateral Expansion
96 ksi SMTS Minimum for 3 specimen 0.015 in
(b) Steels in P-Nos. 6, 7, 8 Minimum for 3 specimen 0.015 in

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